Analysis of Experience in Professional Training of Future Specialists in Physical Culture and Sport in Higher Eductional Establishments of Norway and Sweden

Abstract The article analyzes experience of professional training of future specialists in physical culture and sports in higher educational establishments of Norway and Sweden. Research papers dealing with practice of realization of professional training of specialists in physical culture and sports abroad have been analyzed. Topicality of the research of professional training of future sports coaches in Scandinavian higher educational establishments has been proven. The fact that Scandinavian countries actively promote sports, advantages of physical culture, healthy lifestyle, health improving motor activity, and quality training of staff have been taken into account. The aim of the article is to define basics of the system of professional training of future specialists in physical culture and sport, namely sports coaches, in leading higher educational establishments of Norway and Sweden. The objectives of the research lie in the analysis of present-day state of physical-culture and sports education in Norway and Sweden; qualification trends and organizational peculiarities of professional training of specialists in the sphere of physical culture and sports in higher educational establishments of the aforementioned countries. Curricula of training program bachelors and masters of sports profile in Norway and Sweden have been characterized in the article. Peculiarities of educational programs of professional training of sports coaches in leading physical education and sport higher educational establishments of these countries have been defined. Curricula programs of Norwegian University for Sport and Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences have been presented. It has been revealed that the systems of higher sport education in Norway and Sweden are characterized with educational trajectory of specialists training being expressed in succession of stages of education that a student has to complete in order to acquire knowledge, skills, competences, and has a tendency to profile specialization. Analysis of differences and application of leading experience of professional training of future coaches in Norway and Sweden will have positive impact on the improvement of national system of higher sports education and will promote improvement of efficiency of future specialists’ education in the sphere of physical culture and sport/