Kravchenko T. The Formation of Senior Teenagers' Value Attitude to Their Own Health in the Tourism and Regional Studies Work

The conceptual and categorical apparatus of the research are improved in which the characteristic of the phenomenon of "formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work" is defined as a value and procedural category of person's relation to her or his own interests, needs and beliefs that provides the efficiency of interaction between an individual and society when the person is included in the system of social relationship. The main functions of tourism and regional studies work in the process of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health, namely: educational and cognitive, developing, health-improving (physical well-being), socializing, and pedagogically oriented leisure function are determined and characterized. The characteristic of the content of the leading determinants and factors is described; the effectiveness of the general psychological and pedagogical mechanisms of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work is proved. The essence of pedagogical conditions as the constituents of a technique of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work, namely: the efficiency of methods of formation of the investigated phenomenon is possible if the specific and general didactic forms and methods of practical implementation of the educational content should be the associated in a particular system, succession and appropriateness; compliance between the educational content and urgent problems of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health; modeling of verbal and sensory information aimed at preserving health in the form of image-concepts based on the development of their solutions; including personally and socially relevant socio-cultural values of health preservation in the educational content of the tourism and regional studies work with senior teenagers; development of positive psycho-physical and volitional qualities of teenagers in order to keep healthy lifestyle and active life position to preserve and improve their own health. Theoretical foundations of the technique of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work are defined and proved, as well as its cultural, humanistic, social, psychological and psychological and pedagogical context as the leisure components of the educational process. The structure of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work, as well as groups of some efficient forms, methods and methodological tools as the main components of the developed technique are characterized. The basic provisions of this technique are developed and implemented into practice, namely: main subject and object are senior teenagers; taking into account the integrity and logical unity of all its components - the educational content (program "Value of Own Health"), effective health-saving forms, methods and methodological support (Methodical recommendations for methodical and training support of the formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work). Analysis of the formative phase of this research has showed that experimental verification of the developed and implemented into practice the technique of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work has provided with positive dynamics of the indicators of the level of formation of the investigated phenomenon in the experimental groups. For all of its components, medium and sufficient levels have become the dominant; the number of senior teenagers with a high level has significantly increased, and the number of senior teenagers with a low level has greatly reduced. This confirms that the developed and implemented into practice the technique of formation of senior teenagers' value attitude to their own health in the tourism and regional studies work is effective.