Analysis of Educational Programs on the Motivation of Young Adolescents to Physical Education in the Context of Reforming the System of General Secondary Education
The article is devoted to the problem of identifying the updated content of educational programs on the motivation of younger adolescents to engage in physical education. Using a set of research methods (content analysis of legal documents, systematization, comparison and generalization of data of scientific and methodical literature and Internet sources, pedagogical observations, interviews, conversations, questionnaires, methods of mathematical statistics) it was found that the content and structure of the updated curriculum «Physical Education» in 2012 y. and 2017 y. has significant advantages over the program of 2008 y. on the formation of younger adolescents' motivation to engage in physical culture. Content analysis of physical education curricula (until 2012), as well as questionnaires, interviews, surveys and interviews with students showed, that is the reason for the low growth rate of motivation of younger adolescents to exercise there are both ingrained requirements for the assessment of student achievement and non-orientation of the subject curriculum «Physical Education» to take into account the wishes, interests and individual characteristics of the latter. Installed, that is an important factor in positively influencing the motivation of younger adolescents to physical education classes is both the improvement of the content component of the program and the system of assessment of student achievement, which plays the role of a stimulating factor for physical education.