The genesis of scientific approaches to the physical self-improvement of the individual in the history of psychological and pedagogical thought and beyond

Abstract

The article substantiates the importance of the historical progress of parascientific, pre-scientific and actually scientific approaches to physical self-improvement both within the framework of physical education and outside it. The main thesis of such relevance is the validity and anthropological and synergistic nature of the experience of physical self-improvement, in which historical milestones and heritage still play a significant practical role. As a result, the purpose of the article was not only to conduct a historical review, but also to demonstrate the special role and consequences of changing paradigms of physical self-improvement for a modern person both within the educational process and outside it. The authors used methods of historical-typological, theoretical-methodological and practically oriented analysis (selection of effective, progressive and demarcation of destructive approaches).

An important practical result of the article is the recognition that, against the background of the dominance of technocratic, information-industrial and marketing (body-industry) aspects of physical perfection in modern society and education, there is an urgent need to return to classical and separate progressive modes of physical self-improvement within the framework of humanistic and anthropological paradigms of education (methodology, student stimulation) and personal trajectory of the individual (priorities and orientations).