GENESIS AND CONTENT OF THE PEDAGOGIC PHENOMENON OF GLOBAL EDUCATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

In today’s globalized world, the higher education systems of various countries strive to prepare students for life in general and professional activity in particular in a world that is becoming increasingly interdependent, where most people increasingly contact and cooperate with people of different cultural origins, where people’s lives are affected by the rapid development of information technologies that go beyond national borders and the powers of national jurisdictions. The purpose of the article is to highlight the specifics of the aims and content of global education in modern higher education. The realization of the main purpose required solving the following objectives: 1) to study, understand and generalize scientific and pedagogical sources regarding the genesis of the pedagogical phenomenon of global education and its role in the formation of global competence of students; 2) to characterize the purpose, content and some procedural features of global education aimed at forming the global competence of student youth. The methodology of the research covers the application of a complex of general scientific methods, among which are: analysis, synthesis and generalization of scientific and pedagogical sources on the analyzed problem; monographic method – for a logical presentation of the obtained results. The novelty of the study is determined by the fact that for the first time in the Ukrainian scientific and pedagogical discourse, the issue of the genesis of the concepts «global education» and «global competence» has been highlighted. Conclusions regarding the obtained results show that global education, originating from the twelfth century, in modern higher education is a complex combination of personal development education, human rights education, education for sustainable development, education for peace and conflict prevention, and intercultural education, and it also serves as a global dimension of civic education. Being aimed at educating students as citizens of the world, it ensures the development of critical thinking and an alternative vision of ways to solve problems in personal and/or social life and to reflect on the consequences of their choices. In this way, global education helps to develop the values, attitudes, knowledge and skills that will enable young people to face the challenges of today’s interconnected world.