METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF INNOVATIVE FORMS OF EDUCATION

Transformations in modern society's life, affirming the people's attitude as the highest value of social life, have become conditions for identifying and developing his creative potential and his functioning as a person and a citizen. This situation has actualized the problem of humanization, expanding the issues of the innovation space. All this could not but affect the pedagogical and theoretical views, including methodological knowledge. Recently, innovative processes have entered the field of education and raised the need to update research in methodological tools, defining the intensive development of methodological approaches. The work proves the ambiguity of methodological approaches to the study of innovative forms of education. Their characteristics and grouping are given. Based on this, the author's approach to analyzing innovative forms of education is presented.