DEVELOPING GLOBAL THINKING OF MODERN SPECIALIST AS CONDITION FOR SECURITY

Abstract

In recent decades, global security has seriously been threatened by negatively unprecedented situations, arising from natural disasters, global warming, pollution, financial crises, and new epidemics. It is becoming increasingly evident that maintaining the stability of security has become a global mission. In other words, it is crucial to have global strategies and appropriate actions through the cooperative conversations of all countries in the world. To reach the purpose of sustainable development students as future citizens need to be trained with essential skills that help them effectively deal with an increasingly interconnected and complex world. To do this they need global thinking and creative ideas to coordinate efforts to solve global issues. Consequently, to develop global thinking has become an educational necessity in a multicultural globalized world. A review of the multidisciplinary literature on global thinking reveals the lack of a comprehensive theoretical concept for understanding global thinking and its implications in maintaining the stability of global security. Little attention is paid to the study of pedagogical approaches to develop global thinking skills of students as future specialists. That’s why the authors claim that global thinking of a modern specialist is a condition for security. The paper aims to study the opportunities of education in developing the global thinking of modern students. The concept of global thinking and its roles in maintaining the stability of global security were given. Literature analysis let the authors shed light on the concepts related to global thinking and give the rationales for global thinking. The possibilities of the education in developing global thinking were analyzed and systemized: global thinking as a competence and aim of education; international education; education for sustainable development; problem solving methods of instruction.