Methodological and Theoretical Framework of Young Athletes' Anti-Doping Education

Relevance of the issue under examination stems from the existing contradiction between a tendency for doping fraud of results in sport, a growing need for effective methods and tools of anti-doping education of various target groups and the existing practice of anti-doping education which is not good enough for shaping anti-doping conduct of athletes. The paper focuses on identifying the conceptual approaches to the development and implementation of anti-doping educational programs that would not only raise the awareness of young athletes on the doping issues and shape their negative attitude to doping, but also stimulate the appropriate behavior. The research was undertaken using such theoretical methods as analysis, generalization, systematization and logical induction. The research result is the recognition of culturally sensitive, axiological and activity-based approaches as the core methodological principles, and of the Olympic education theory and the concept of drug prevention through sports - as the robust theoretical underpinnings for development and implementation of anti-doping educational programs targeting young athletes. The paper materials may be of high value for the methodological practice of sports schools in developing and implementing anti-doping educational programs.