Global Openness of Science in the Processes of Institutional Transformations of the Education System as a Factor in the Formation of Sustainable Development of Society

Abstract

Scientific research is primarily due to the need to study the problem of compliance of strategic guidelines of higher education and its specific educational models with the needs of civilizational progress towards a sustainable future, peace, mutual understanding, mutual respect and care for the environment. Globalisation involves the fusion of all nations' societies, economies, and institutions (including those related to education and science) into a single socioeconomic system with the potential for improved political coordination between them.  In modern globalism, an imitative homeostatic avalanche-like model of crisis degradation of a society, living in line with the principles of consumption, has been formed, threatening by falling intelligence development below the critical mark and consequently by cessation of technological progress and sharp increase of mortality compared to births. Higher education is becoming more globally and internationally integrated, which raises a number of new questions for theory and practise, such as which management patterns, forms, and techniques are universal and which are specific. The essential interdependence of the systemic and functional traits of the institutional dimension of global transformations of world development must be recognised and conceptualised, it is assumed. Global institutional transformations are currently taking place for the sustainable development of society in the context of the internationalization of higher education and science. One of the main features of the modern stage of development of world civilization is the globalization of all spheres of human social life - cultural, informational, economic. Various concepts of globalization are developed and arised.

Science used to talk only about the internationalization of the economy, social and cultural life, and so on. However, today this concept has spread to all systemic and institutional levels and structures.

Education institutions and establishments should teach how to work together in partnership, develop skills for sustainable development, develop critical thinking, share responsibility between students and the teaching team. Education institutions can be examples of sustainable lifestyles.