The Department of Theoretical Foundations of Physical Education and Sports dates back to 1969. It employs highly-qualified professionals in sports and physical education, medicine, human anatomy and physiology. They are honoured higher education teachers, masters of sports and high achievers in physical culture.

More than 120 academic disciplines are delivered by the department, which qualifies specialists in physical training and sports who show promise and gain traction in the Penza Region and beyond. Its graduates become Olympic, World and European champions, who glorify not only their alma mater, but also the Penza Region and the Russian Federation.

Since the establishment of the department, its staff have been actively engaged in individual research and release of textbooks, study guides and manuals. Over the past 5 years, they have produced about 250 research papers in the scientific publications indexed by SCOPUS and RSCI. In addition, teaching staff are involved in research work together with their students.

Since 2011, the student research centre has been actively functioning at the department. The major focus areas of the centre include challenges in physical education of schoolchildren, medical and biological aspects of training athletes, professionally applied physical training, healthy lifestyle and factors that determine its formation means and methods of physical training for maintaining health. At the regular meetings of the centre, its participants consider the research findings and discuss issues that can generate certain research interest among students. As part of these meeting, decisions are made on the new research projects. Students’ research works are presented at the annual research-to-practice conferences for students and staff held at the Institute of Sport and Physical Training. The best papers are published in the conferences proceedings and featured at the regional, national and international events.

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Bachelor

     Teacher Training: Physical Training

Master

     Teacher Training: Physical Training

RESEARCH

Research topics

•    Physical education and sports as a means of adopting healthy lifestyle, enhancing physical fitness and improving general health
•    Developing morphofunctional characteristics of children and youth in relation to sport specialisation
•    Theory and methods of improving motor functions of children through physical education
•    Methods of teaching physical education to schoolchildren

CONTACTS

Dr. Elena Dvoryaninova
Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Associate Professor
Head of the Department

37 Lermontova Street, building 14, office 203
Tel: +7 (8412) 20-35-25
E-mail: ffkis-tofv@mail.ru
Web-page of the Department of Theoretical Foundations of Physical Education and Sports (in Russian)