Philosophy of Education: The Challenges of Globalization and Innovation in the Information Society
Modern civilization has come in recent decades into a new phase in its development, called the information society. The concept of “information society” has become one of the most common. Therefore, the attempt to understand what exactly the society we live in, what are its essential features, and possible future scenarios, is important to the social and philosophical analysis. At the heart of all these deep transformations is more increasing, almost defining role knowledge and information as play substrata of «information society». The mankind opened for itself and actively exploits a new resource-information. Information society puts forward on the arena new type of the power, at the heart of which activity–mastering by a new resource: information and knowledge.
