CONCEPTUAL BASIS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF OUR COUNTRY
Scientific-methodical literature analysis, connected with the main positions of physical education development and improvement at higher educational establishments helps the author make the conclusion that physical tducation development in our country is characterized by alternating change of content orientation and priorities. These priorities are directly connected with foreign policy of the state, with population health state and level, with new theoretical and practical scientific works of the leading scientists and teachers of the country. Materials. Orientation change is a common phenomenon in native physical upbringing at higher educational establishments. The reason for such a phenomenon is, first of all, in the fact that physical education methodology creation at educational establishments of our country was the conditions, when the main components of scientific-methodical basis of the discipline were not created. Research methods: scientific and methodical literature analysis, method of historical analogy, comparison. Results. At different stages of the subject formation educational-upbringing process was oriented at different aims: military training; training for labor activity; communistic upbringing and a new person formation; training for RLD complex normatives fulfillment; sports reserve training; competencies formation and etc.. Conclusion. In spite of different conceptions and approaches to students’ physical upbringing organization and planning at Russian higher educational establishments, main attention is paid to its aim orientation and content development, without the form of pedagogical process change. Considerable part of physical culture lessons at higher educational establishments stay practical, where motor objectives are mainly solved.