Humanities & Social Sciences 2 (2017 10) 177-188 ~ ~ ~ УДК 378 Creative and Innovative Educational Paradigm and Acmeological Approach to the Development of a Student as a Subject of Professional Activity and Ekaterina M. Chebotarevab a Siberian Federal University Maksim V. Kochetkova * 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia b Received 10.09.2016, received in revised form 14.11.2016, accepted 27.12.2016 The article focuses on the essential characteristics of the creative and innovative paradigm of higher education in the anthropocentricity principle context. <...> The new educational paradigm is also characterised by the principles of self-development of activity subjects, co-creativity of activity subjects on the level of their co-existence, openness, integrity, self-organization. <...> The article considers continuity of the creative and innovative educational paradigm and the current concept of higher education development. <...> In this regard, special attention is paid to the acmeological approach to individual development. <...> This approach is directly related to creative activity and can serve as a methodological basis for competence approach used as additional means for the assessment of specialists trained at universities. <...> Focusing on the intentionally dynamic model of “acme”, the article reveals a set of criteria and indicators for intellectual maturity, recommended for use at all stages of specialist training and their professional activity. <...> Keywords: innovation, creativity, modernization, competence approach, personality-centred approach, personalization, creative and innovative educational paradigm, acmeological approach, intellectual maturity of an individual. <...> Introduction Information, knowledge and innovation are becoming the main driving force of the post-industrial society. <...> All rights reserved * Corresponding author E-mail address: m-kochetkov@yandex.ru; kedrova-pgu@yandex.by – 177 – model of society development, relying rather on the “economics of information” than on the “economics of goods.” Daniel Bell stated that the post-industrial society would witness the shift from goods to services and the expansion Polotsk State University 29 Blochina Str, Novopolotsk, 211440, Belarus Maksim V. Kochetkov, Ekaterina M. Chebotareva. <...> Creative and Innovative Educational Paradigm and Acmeological… of services in the economic sector, the rise of new technical elite and increasing dependence on science and theoretical knowledge as a means of innovation and organization of technological change (Bell, 1973). <...> In the new paradigm of higher education, creativity and innovation are its fundamental elements intended to streamline higher education to become efficient and globally competitive <...>