The current situation of the world order in the era of global changes in the value foundations of the life of both an individual and various communities and states as a whole presents humanity with a wide range of challenges of political, economic, socio-cultural plans, overcoming which requires the education of a viable personality. Safety as a socio-cultural concept, the imperative of individual and social development needs a “safe education”, determines the need to comprehend pedagogical theories and educational practice in relation to the socio-political, economic, cultural level of development of the country and the situation of development of students. There is a demand for the development of a humane socio-personal educational paradigm (V. I. Zagvyazinsky) to implement the idea of ensuring safety in education, reflecting the goals, values, meanings of pedagogically appropriate ways and means of creating and maintaining a safe educational environment; educating a person with a culture of a safe lifestyle. The analysis of the problem in pedagogical science and educational practice indicates that the term “safety” is currently used in all spheres of human activity, in various scientific studies, in various semantic contexts. The conceptual nature of security in pedagogical research, on the one hand, confirms its global reach in solving pedagogical problems, on the other hand, it hinders the implementation of a holistic approach to its provision in the education system. Beyond pedagogical reflection are the deep foundations of the concept of “security”, reflecting the noxological orientation of educational practices in historical and pedagogical terms, along with the “non-rootedness of value valeological orientations in the real life of the Russian people” (P.F. Kubrushko, V.A. Devisilov). which led to the appeal to the pedagogical heritage of V.A. Sukhomlinsky. In the course of the study, a pedagogical understanding of the concept of security is presented — as a state of subject-subject relations, reflecting a situation in which the subjects of interaction assess the possibility of harming each other (the result of exposure that entailed undesirable and (or) adverse effects of exposure) and to themselves as insignificant. The analysis of the experience of the Pavlysh school made it possible to identify the valeological dominants of educational practices (health-oriented, organizational-guiding, communicative-creative), the implementation of which is timely and necessary both to achieve the quality of education and to educate the younger generation capable of ensuring personal, public and state security.