Burka O. Training for future physical therapists in application of fitness and health-improving technologies

The dissertation describes a new way to solve the problem of training for future physical therapists in application of fitness and health-improving technologies. The technological construct of the preparedness of physical therapists to apply fitness and health-improving technologies includes the following components: communicative; somatic ones; personal ones; and physical and practical ones. The necessity of the training for future physical therapists in application of fitness and health-improving technologies was substantiated. The set of pedagogical conditions was developed and tested, namely: stimulating engagement in study of fitness and health-improving technologies through excursions, organizing communication with leading instructors during education, forming a cognitive basis for preparedness for application of fitness and health-improving technologies during innovative lectures (working in microgroups, solving situational tasks, constructing schemes, development of individual and group fitness and health-improving programs); practical implementation of theoretical knowledge in the classroom (role plays, mutual training followed by video analysis) and in quasi-professional activities (implementation of fitness technologies in educational practice); and introduction of fitness and health-improving technologies application quality assessment systems into learning process of future physical therapists. The results of the experimental researches were presented.