MODERN PROBLEMS OF PEDAGOGICAL AXIOLOGY

The issues of values and values-based education are very urgent and widely discussed in pedagogy today. The researchers’ appeal to the ideas of pedagogical axiology is connected with an ambition to find approaches to how to form students’ value-based orientations and consider the education as the main way to solve this problem. The purpose of the article is to prove and describe the problematic directions of pedagogical axiology development presenting it as a disciplinary field of pedagogical knowledge. The author presents the stages of how the ideas of pedagogical axiology have been developing and shows the promising areas of pedagogical axiology development: discourse design and detailization in pedagogical axiology; the development of pedagogical axiology as an interdisciplinary paradigm; methodological specification of axiological research in pedagogy. The author pays special attention to how to choose methods for studying the values-based educational phenomena and value-based orientations of students; indicates the advantages and limitations of these methods while conducting pedagogical research. Pedagogical axiology has sufficient methodological resources for undertaking studies of value-based phenomena in education, but requires the readiness of a researcher to conduct axiological studies and use flexible methodology.