Romankova L. Character building in student youth in the discourse of developing a Global Knowledge Society

The object is the student youth education in factual and counter-factual contexts of educational globalization; the goal is to reveal the specifics and identify the main tendencies of transformation of the strategies and practices of educating student youth in the hypothetical contexts of a world knowledge society formation; the methods are as follows: active, synergetic and dialectic; ideological, synergetic, systematic, tectological, managerial, psychological, behavioral, structural-functional, culturological, axiological, active, pedagogical, specific-historical, complex methodological approaches; the novelty is the conceptualization of student youth education in the ontological parameters of the hypothetical world of knowledge society where the situation of uncertainty acquires normative status, while the education acts as a stabilizer of relations within educational institutions and outside them, minimizing the risks of self-organization of the educational mega system; the results are the following – it is substantiated the necessity of introducing post-sectarian options into national education programs of student youth, which open cosmopolitan prospects of its self-realization in the world society of knowledge without losing its identity; it is revealed the ambivalent educational potential of the world society of knowledge, the constitutive factors of which are post-conventional moralists with a high level of social responsibility and orientation to universal values; it is substantiated that the main goal of educating a future specialist in the educational environment of the University is to intensify his creative potential, first of all, the student's intellect; the branch is the philosophy of education.