Abstract

The urgency of the research topic is that the problem of the new educational strategy as a factor of sustainable development is aimed at professional and spiritual and intellectual growth of the individual. This strategy becomes very important in the evolution of society from information to the "knowledge society". It is the decision of these problems that affects the process of economic and socio-cultural changes, in the context of which training of professionals turns into one of the main factors of production and the innovative and cultural resource of society. The problem of research. Education as a social and cultural institution is aimed at training professionals who can work in a competitive economy. The purpose of the research: to form an effective concept of education as a factor of sustainable development in the context of the professional and spiritual and intellectual dimensions of man and society in the context of transforming society from information to the "knowledge society". The objectives of the stud y professional and intellectual-spiritual development of the "knowledge society", which would contribute to the sustainable development of the educational space; to reveal the position that in the "society of knowledge" the dynamics of science, education, culture, which influences the development of intellectual, spiritual and professional priorities of man and society, is growing; to discover that it is a new strategy for education as a factor for sustainable development in the evolution from the information society to the "knowledge society". Methods andmethodology - socio-acciological, structural-functional, institutional, synergetic methods and approaches that allow a new look at education as a complex social and cultural institution The result of the study. The formation of an effective concept of training specialists in the context of the transformation of the information society into the "knowledge society" is due to the fact that education represents an intellectual resource for the modernization and reform of higher education. Conclusions. Education in the "society of knowledge" serves as strategic economic functions, as well as functions of cultural and spiritual and intellectual development of man and society. This type of society requires professionals who would work in conditions of social and cultural change, were the initiators of these changes and contributed to the spiritual and intellectual development of man and society.