PROBLEMS OF HEALTH-PRESERVING EDUCATION IN MODERN SCHOOLS

Abstract

It is known that excessive learning (mental) load at school age leads to overwork and impairs
children’s health, as there is an imbalance between the interests of education and the health of the
young generation.
The system of continuous education contains all the necessary prerequisites for the formation
of a responsible, value-based attitude towards their health. Unfortunately, facts show negative
dynamics: there are many more children with health issues among high school students than
among first-graders. Thus, in the Republic of Armenia, in the first grade only 30 percent of
children had health problems, whereas in the sixth grade - 70 percent.
The article analyzes the results of the state of health-preserving education in modern schools,
draws appropriate conclusions and offers a number of recommendations. The results of the studies
indicate that not only the majority of the interviewed teachers, but also the medical workers of
schools have no idea about health-preserving education.
Let's highlight the main reasons:
- medical workers in schools are mainly general nurses and are incompetent in organizing
health-promoting and health-forming education;
- teachers solve their problems: to achieve a high-level subject proficiency, to ensure a highlevel
academic performance, etc., whereas the health of students is out of their concern;
- there is no enough literature in the Armenian language on the subject, there is no special
seminars and, unfortunately, there is insufficient attention of the heads of educational institutions
towards this important, not to say the most important, issue;
- there is weak control, both internal and external.
We consider it necessary:
- to train medical workers for schools according to a special program;
- retrain current workers;
- to include courses in valeology (general valeology, pedagogical valeology), the basics of
school hygiene, etc. in the program of training and retraining of teachers,
- to regulate the studyload of schoolchildren.