Keyword: «культура»

The condition of physical and mental health of the younger generation is of particular concern today. Issues of a healthy and safe lifestyle are discussed in modern sociocultural reality, but this is extremely insufficient nowadays. It is important to combine efforts and practices in the direction of clarifying the essential, conceptual component of a healthy and safe lifestyle culture of the individual, as well as in the direction of developing and introducing educational disciplines in order to preserve and further promote the health of students. The currently existing theoretical and experimental studies, curricula / modules dedicated to the readiness for health-preserving, health-creating activities of future professionals do not take into account the peculiarities of the formation of ideas about the world around and their own body and their connection. They do not reflect specific psychological and pedagogical recommendations. Today, there is a lack of educational and methodological recommendations for teachers, psychologists and professors, revealing the content, forms and means of psychological and pedagogical influence on future specialists, the opportunity of using various types of activities in order to be prepared for health-preserving activities. The goal is to find the possibilities of using pedagogical education as a means of fostering a culture of a healthy and safe lifestyle for the subjects of the educational process. In this case, we are talking about fostering a culture of a healthy and safe lifestyle for teachers of various professional areas, other employees of educational institutions (social workers, speech therapists, defectologists, tutors, etc.) and the students themselves. In this context, pedagogical education includes the development and subsequent implementation of educational programs that contribute to the protection and promotion of health, the prevention of diseases, the formation of a careful attitude towards one's own health and the health of others, and the self-organization of safe life. The article presents educational programs based on interdisciplinary, personality-activity oriented approaches, the concept of health preservation and a healthy lifestyle of educational subjects for the training of future teachers, psychologists, social workers, advanced training of existing teaching staff. Further development and implementation of such programs in the modern system of continuous education will contribute to the formation, maintenance, promotion of health, a culture of a healthy and safe lifestyle for the subjects of the educational process and society as a whole. The materials of the article can be used for pedagogical support of the process of fostering a culture of a healthy and safe lifestyle of educational subjects in modern society.

The article considers cultural differences and contradictions between American North and South using as an example the story “The Ice Palace” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920) studied during home reading classes.