Ideas of social development of younger schoolchildren in the process of physical education in the theory and practice of P.F. Lesgaft and V.S. Pirussky

The order of the society for education of independent, successful, and creative people able to interact effectively with surrounding people has existed for many years. However, today the problem of successful social development of younger generation in our country is the sharpest, and obligation of orientation to social development of younger schoolchildren is fixed by the state policy in the field of education. Physical Education classes give a chance of active interaction of pupils, of broad application of active forms of education such as outdoor and sport games, relay races, competitive situations, so physical education assumes the formation of independence, responsibility, mobility, organizing abilities, abilities to work in pairs and groups, to participate in an activity in different role positions of the pupil. Besides, physical education in practice does not exist without intellectual, esthetic, moral, and labour education, that is the spiritual shape of the person forms by correctly organized classes. This paper is devoted to the scientific and practical activities of great teachers of the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries, Peter Frantsevich Lesgaft and Vladislav Stanislavovich Pirussky, in whose works and undertakings the ideas of the need of children's social development in the process of physical education more than 100 years ago were brightly shown. Lesgaft is called the founder of the system of physical culture of Russia. The first Institute of Physical Culture opened in Petersburg in 1919 is named after him. Pirussky is called the ''Siberian Lesgaft'' because he spread the progressive ideas of promoting the forces of nature and physical exercises in Tomsk. Our research is to find the analogies and distinctions in Peter Lesgaft's and Vladislav Pirussky's scientific and practical activities, and also to identify their ideas about the need of children's social development in the process of physical education. Both P. Lesgaft and V. Pirussky are called outstanding doctors and teachers, humanists by the contemporaries and historians. Their progressive views in many respects predetermined the content and forms of physical education at modern school. Many provisions and theories they offered are still relevant even today, when introducing the new federal state educational standards in educational institutions.

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