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There are several approaches to the safety probelms: «political safety», «economic safety», «social safety», «ecological safety», «safety of education» and others. Education takes an important place in the system of ensuring the national security of Russia, because it depends on the educational preparation the youth in the XXI century. It is a basis without which the society cannot normally function and develop. In the «Strategy of national security of the Russian Federation till 2020» science and education are specified as one of the main priorities of the sustainable development of Russia at the present stage. The sociopolitical and economic transformations occurring in Russia objectively lead to the need of development of new scientific, world outlook, methodological and conceptual approaches to the problem of safety of education as an important component of national security. An important component of any theoretical development of the phenomenon, process, or subject domain is the methodology which defines the ways and the corresponding tools of knowledge acquisition. It is necessary to note that the problem of safety of education is an interdisciplinary problem. The typology of methodological practices is a problem which is very valuable for our methodological analysis of the «safety of education»; in particular, it deals with the following issues: the search for the philosophical bases; the definition of the subject and object of research; the problem of the ontological status of the research object; the statement of tasks; the development of methods, etc. While defining the main directions and programs of research, it is necessary to consider that the correct methodological formulation of the problem of safety should correspond to the question of the ontological status of national security, its communication with the safety of spiritual, social and natural systems and processes in the society. While forming the methodological basis of the research of the education safety, it is expedient to start with the following levels of methodology: safety philosophy, general theory of safety, special theory of safety. Integrated application of the possibilities of all three levels of methodology in the interests of research of the education safety is attained within a complex-systemic approach.