Methodological guidelines for new paradigmatic characteristics of pedagogical thinking

The article presents a fundamental problem in pedagogical science: the actualization and characterization of new guidelines for pedagogical thinking as an active reflection of objective socio-pedagogical reality. Recognizing pedagogy as "a means of altruistic transformation of human society," it reveals the essence and content of the paradigmatic characteristics of pedagogical thinking as a new subject of pedagogical science. It presents a definition of pedagogical thinking as a phenological form of the subject's spiritual activity, which arises and develops in the process of professional pedagogical activity and has a socio-psychological nature in terms of the characteristics of its origin, modes of operation, and results. The following methodological approaches are outlined and disclosed: noospheric, dialectical, and social-prognostic.