The article is devoted to the problem of searching ways of humanitarization of higher pedagogical education. Higher education of the former USSR countries is developing within new social and cultural conditions. The reformation process
requires teaching practice to implement traditional and innovative priorities and values in a systematic way where humanitarization plays a significant role. At the same time, education within the actual practice often suffers from authoritarianism, technocratism and narrow pragmatism which lead to the displacement of humanitarian and general cultural dominants. A tendency of reduction of education towards teaching with ignoring personally developmental problems is emerging.The article emphasizes that humanitarian and fundamental knowledge is equivalent to influential factors in the formation of a personality in the system of higher education. The ideas of humanitarization of higher education were presented by the outstanding methodologist S. Goncharenko
