On the revision of the content of physical education inthe context of pairing continuity of its historical developmentwith up-to-date time requests
The article presents the results of a retrospective analysis of planning documents for the training of physical education teachers in the higher education system dated from 1951 to the present day. The relevance of the study is due to the disparity of the curricula for the training of physical education personnel, which arose as a result of the continuous correction of the governing documents regulating the sphere of higher education. Against the background of the task facing universities to process educational programs in accordance with professional standards and the labor functions laid down in them, the Voronezh State Institute of Physical Culture is working on the scientific substantiation of the content of the main professional educational program of higher education in the subject field of training 49.03.01 “Physical Culture”, track “Physical education” (bachelor’s degree). As part of this work, a retrospective analysis of educational documents stored in the archives of physical education universities has been carried out. The systematization of archival data made it possible to identify three periods of key changes in program documents (1951, 1982, 2010); to structure academic disciplines according to conditional “enlarged groups” and trace their place in the system of training physical education personnel in dynamics over the past 70 years; to identify 14 fundamental disciplines that persist in the curricula and analyze the dynamics of their planned indicators. Based on the results of the work, conclusions have been made, the main of which are about the fundamental need for scientific substantiation of the content of curricula (as opposed to their formal compilation) and about the expediency of revising the content of physical education in the context of combining the continuity of its historical development with the current demands of time.