Student Motivation in the Process of Physical Education at the University of Customs and Finance

Abstract

The development of a future specialist in accordance with the competence approach involves the development of not only the intellectual, but also the physical component of the individual, as a result of which there is a need to update the methodology of physical education of students and encourage physical self-improvement in particular. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the need to develop students’ motivation in the process of physical education on the example of pedagogical activity of teachers of the University of Customs and Finance. The study was conducted in three stages using scientific-theoretical and empirical methods of research, including analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization and survey. It has been revealed that the practices of physical education of students are shaped in accordance with the individual motivational factor. The main interpretations of the category “motivation” in the context of a historical retrospective are determined, as a result of which attention was focused on the perception of motivation as an incentive to meet personal needs. An empirical study was conducted in the form of a survey of first-and second-year students to characterize the initial level of motivation for physical education classes. Key motivational factors for physical education of students, such as health-improving, aesthetic, professionally-oriented, administrative-mandatory and status-based, are identified. The list of main methods of stimulating students to engage in physical education classes is given, taking into account Ukrainian practices (modular and “point” systems, the use of mass media, a combination of physical development of both team and individual components, etc.) and foreign practices (the use of digital technologies, the perception of the teacher’s authority as a method of motivation, the formation of a positive psychological climate and providing autonomy to students). The prospects for further research in the repeated conduct of empirical research to confirm the effectiveness of the application of updated methods of motivating students to engage in physical education classes

Keywords

• motivational factor
• value criterion
• needs
• motor activity
• physical culture