The article is devoted to the review and systematization of the theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of administrative and legal support of the education system in Ukraine that dominate in domestic legal science. The authors focus on the issues of taking into account the peculiarities of the current state of education and its administrative and legal support, as well as the dynamics of their development, in any study. The study takes into account the views of domestic researchers on the role of philosophy of law and the theory of humanitarian logic. It was found that the methodology of analysis researchers include: philosophical and philosophical approaches; general scientific methods; group methods. Instead, the logic of humanitarian knowledge is formed on the basis of the logic of historical knowledge, the specificity of which is manifested in the special meaning of singular sets that receive direct and indirect meaning, form the appropriate logical connections in drawing conclusions. Approaches to the use of existentialism as a current of modern idealist philosophy are outlined, in the plane of which society is opposed to the individual, the objectivity of being is denied, but only human existence and subjective experiences are considered real. Particular attention is paid to systemic and synergetic approaches as the most relevant for use in the study of administrative and legal support of the education system. The advantage of a systematic approach is the ability to apply almost all the tools of scientific knowledge. At the same time, its disadvantage is the neglect of the features of individual components of the system. The use of a synergetic approach makes it possible not only to understand the processes occurring in the study area, but also to identify existing and projected results of the interaction of system components.