Ostrenko S. Phenomenon of Innovative Activity in Contemporary Education: Foundations, Mechanisms, Horizons (Social-Philosophical Analysis).

The object is the phenomenon of innovative activity in contemporary education in its social-cultural dimension. The aim is to reveal the specifics of the social-cultural foundations, mechanisms, possible praxeological horizons of innovative activity in contemporary education. The methods are approaches of phenomenology, transcendentalism, dialectics, fundamental ontology, synergy, structuralism, post-structuralism. The thesis is devoted to the complex structural-universal genetic-energetic foundations of innovative activity in their non-classical and post-nonclassical aspects. It has been disclosed that personalistic, communicative, epistemocratic mechanisms have their origins appropriate socio-cultural practices (writing, discourse, power). Each of these mechanisms is a structure that is able to produce an innovative product. The thesis offers the idea of the Dnipropetrovs'k educational complex as the competitive unity of universities, the network form of organization of scientific and pedagogical process aimed at creating innovative elite in the future knowledge society. Application sphere is the educational process.