Recreational Tourism In The Process Of Future Specialists Education In The Field Of Physical Culture And Health

Abstract

The topicality of the research is due to the contradiction between the need for competent specialists in the field of Physical Culture, Tourism and Recreation and insufficient models for its education, in particular for the discipline «Recreational Tourism».The aim of the research is to develop a model of the optimal educational process of Recreational Tourism for the students of Physical Culture faculties in the field of Recreational Tourism. The methods of research: questionnaires, theoretical modeling, analysis and generalization of literary sources, pedagogical observation, method of mathematical statistics. The Results of the Work. It is established that the professional training of future specialists in recreational tourism is defined as a process that reflects scientifically and methodically substantiated educational measures of a higher educational institution that are of a theoretical and practical nature. These studies have testified that in studying of the educational "Recreational Tourism" discipline, students prefer practical classes, informational lectures (26,9 %), lectures-visualizations (26,9 %), lecture-discussions (22,6 %), meetings with practices in the field of recreational tourism, meetings with practitioners in the field of recreation tourism, excursions, touristic attractions andtravel agencies, etc. The researchers also recommend to the supplement the education system by the following education methods: problem situations, business games, online trainings, conferences, and create theinterdisciplinaryrelations with foreign languages, economics and management. With regard to the disciplines that students would like to learn firstly on a practical level, the most interest is noted in active types of tourism, such as sports, in particular pedestrian, tourist services, ethnographic studies and tourist animation. Conclusions. Thus, the formation of an effective model of profile training of students of the Physical Culture and Health faculties, in particular the complexity in organizing of the educational process for Recreational Tourism, taking into account the views of students, colleagues and the theorists and practitioners work on the selection of content, methods and forms of classes, methods of knowledge assessment, will allow to raise the level of knowledge and motivationto study this discipline.