Forming university students healthy lifestyle through the mastering the discipline “Pedagogy”

The article deals with the problem of students (future teachers) health. To solve the problem of preserving and strengthening the health of university students, the authors propose a group of methods for the formation of healthy lifestyle (HLS) culture through the mastering the educational discipline of the pedagogical cycle. In the formation of a student`s healthy lifestyle culture the main components are distinguished: cognitive-semantic, emotional-volitional, reflexive-evaluative. The assessment of the levels of healthy lifestyle formation among university students is proposed. Within the framework of the discipline “Pedagogy” in its first module “Introduction to the teaching profession” a developed program “Health as a value” was proposed to second-year students of the Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovsky. This program was implemented in the experimental group