Health-Oriented Education in Slovakia Related to Physical and Sport Education
Health-Oriented Education in Slovakia Related to Physical and Sport Education

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the study, based on the content analysis, is to present a current situation about a health of a school population in Slovakia, through a general physical performance, as a result of the curricular transformation of the physical and sport education in Slovakia after 1989, which is related to the educational process of the 21st century, pointing to a basis of a modern transformation regarding with a pre-graduate preparation of students of a teaching orientation. From the point of view of the methods of data acquisition, we based on the available literary sources, relying on statistical data of the health, which were published by the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic, as well as using the Internet portal of the Ministry of Education, Science and Research, National Institute for Education with the intention of scientific and academic studies, related to a field of research. While processing the available information, we used the methods of the analysis and synthesis with the support of the inductive and deductive procedures. In the final part of the study, we have come to the conclusion that the systematic health support of the school population and education to the healthy lifestyle is the necessary part of the educational process of the physical and sport education, which is related to the formation of the professional identity and status of the teachers of the given subject.

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