Zhang X. Representation of national identity in the space of modern education

The thesis is devoted to defining the peculiarities and main tendencies of national identity self-affirmation in supranational educational spaces. In the thesis, the transversal language representations of national identity in the global and local spaces of modern education are conceptualized. The educational model oriented on identity formation of an individual based on optimization of his consumer needs (as exemplified in the Buddhist economy society) in contrast to the educational model oriented on the artificial maximization of consumer needs of an individual (peculiar for Western societies), is analyzed. It is determined that the preservation and assertion of the national identity in the global educational space through its linguistic representations can be performed both through the language closure model (encapsulation) and transversal communicative transitions in the globalized educational spaces with an expanded network of inter-cultural educational communications. It is conceptualized the social expediency of prioritized establishment of humanistic rather than material values in education, as exemplified in the dependence of the eastern socioeconomic model from the eastern educational model. The Ukrainian language appears as a mezzanine of social integration, which ensures the coherence of the informational, axiological and communicative tasks of the language when providing education.