The purpose of the study is to show the qualitative originality of approaches to the interpretation of the educational ideal presented in postmodern pedagogy in the context of the transformation of ideas about reality. The article focuses on the coexistence of three positions that characterize its features: understanding of the actual reality as a material condition of human experience, as an ideal construct existing in the mind of the cognizing subject, and as a virtual reality. The scientific novelty lies in the fact that, based on a critical analysis of conceptual approaches to the interpretation of reality, the features of the pedagogical projection of specific tasks that a modern teacher should set and solve are revealed. As a result, the ideals of a person of the future formulated in postmodern pedagogy as a qualified consumer, a specialist capable of changing the nature of his work in a situation of uncertainty, as well as a socially adapted person who can coexist in several communication streams, formulated in postmodern pedagogy, are identified and characterized.