Tasks of modern education in the perspective of global development trends

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Urgency of the research. Modern education should prepare future generations for the tasks that are yet to emerge in the future. Meanwhile, today's pupils and students will become specialists and main performers of social tasks. Accordingly, in addition to providing up-to-date knowledge that has always been geared towards education, there is a particular concern about developing competencies for students who will be able to successfully acquire knowledge that is not yet available but which will inevitably emerge in the near future. Thus, modern education must shape its tasks in the light of social forecasting.

Target setting. The activities of the Club of Rome have been evaluated predominantly from a scientific and political perspective, while its impact on the formation of educational tasks has not yet been conceptualized.

Actual scientific researches and issues analysis. Prediction of the future of humanity has been the subject of a special study by analysts such as Timothy O'Reilly, Joy Ito and Jeff Howe. A conceptual overview of the development of the Roman Club's tasks is given by its representatives, Ernst Weitzzer and Anders Wykman, as well as Ukrainian philosophers Vladimir Vlasov and Victor Zinchenko. An analysis of the value orientations of generations is provided by Anna Dolot.

The research objective. The objective of the article is to evaluate the perspectives of the accentuated content, methodological and value orientation of modern education on the global scale of its tasks on the example of the analysis of the activities of the Club of Rome.

The statement of basic material. A successful example of the integration of modern science into the educational process is the activity of the Club of Rome, the materials of each report of which become an important component of the educational “product” of many higher educational institutions, and especially those which are providing adult education. The perception of the ideas of the Club depended largely on their inclusion in the agenda – political, economic, cultural etc. The quality of such perception depends on the level of competence of those who perceive and on whether they evaluate the forecasts of the Club only as information, or take them as a value. The value perception of predictions of social development enables them to form principles of personal behavior and methodology for the perception and transformation of the social and natural environment. The combination of information and value influence on the individual can be done in different ways, but one of the most effective is the educational means of influence. Indirectly the participants in the activities of the Roman Club have become more than one generation of globalized humanity – since 1968, one can count the life of the third generation.

Conclusions. New generations are eager to become involved in the work of the Roman Club in the educational process – at least as part of accepting their share of responsibility for their own future.

Keywords: adult education, globalization of knowledge, the Club of Rome, United Nations Organization, ecology, democracy.

 

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