Running as a Means of Teaching and Upbringing in the Theoretical Heritage and Pedagogical Practices of Outstanding Russian Researchers of Physical Culture of the Second Half of the XIX - early XX Centuries

The relevance of the study is due to the unsatisfactory state of health of the younger generation of Russians, as well as the problems of teaching physical culture in our country. One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the potential of various types of running and exercises based on it, which is clearly underused in modern Russian education. Famous Russian teachers of the second half of the XIX – early XX century P. V. Tikhanovich, A. G. Berglind, P. F. Lesgaft, E. A. Pokrovsky, A.D. Butovsky, V. E. Ignatiev and V. G. Ukhov offer a theoretical justification and give vivid examples of practical solutions to the most important educational tasks based on the active use of running locomotion in the educational process. The subject of this study is their understanding of the educational potential of running as the most accessible and attractive type of activity for children, providing comprehensive personal development. As a means of training and education, running exercises allow you to achieve the most important educational goals, which are expressed in the basic principles of pedagogy. This is provided by the natural ("instinctive") nature of running, which explains its health benefits, accessibility and recreativeness; a playful form of running activities; the connection of bodily and intellectual development in the implementation of complex running exercises, habituation to working capacity based on the skill of prolonged volitional tension and "firmness of mind", the achievement of graceful movements, etc. The author comes to the conclusion that outstanding Russian researchers of physical culture P. V. Tikhanovich, A. G. Berglind, P. F. Lesgaft, E. A. Pokrovsky, A.D. Butovsky, V. E. Ignatiev and V. G. Ukhov have revealed the huge educational potential of running, significant for modern pedagogical practices.

running, training, education, kalokagatiya, principles of pedagogy, folk games, ekpletridzein, russian pedagogy, humanism, physical culture