Cultural and Educational Environment in the Global Era: Heuristic Potential for Reaching Integrity

Abstract

This paper outlines the main referent features of the culture‒education sphere in the framework of globalizing world order, viewed with the help of philosophical concepts, in particular, the heuristic. The relevance of the topic is determined by the problem of the transforming conditions of human life, which influence the formation of his personality as a result of civilizational changes in the globalizing world. The heterogeneity of the cultural space leads humanity to an awareness of the crisis and the search for non-standard solutions. The article sets the objective of revealing the possibilities whereby the education sector can influence the vector of civilizational developments, and of showing new perspectives of such a research. In following this, the study is based on the methodology of systems analysis, and on the interdisciplinary approach which is innovative in a sense that it highlights the heuristic nature of cognitive activity as a wide-format, conceptual solution of the central problem. The theoretical substantiation of the need to maintain the dynamic stability of the cultural and educational environment of Russia exposes the problem of the integrity of the national cultural and educational space. In this respect, the idea brought about is that heuristic can be applied as an analytical tool, balancing the vision on global and national civilizational processes. This can establish a stronger coherence of political and cultural bodies on the both levels mentioned, with heuristic foundation of sustainable development, public administration and governance. The results make it possible to single out a number of program documents of global importance that consolidate the concept of sustainable development as a priority for managing civilizational processes, contributing to the renewal of goal-setting and the formation of a new vision, a new way to treat the reality. The sustainable path that Russia took determines the tools for modeling the integrity of the cultural and educational space, based on the parameters of the balance of material needs, moral values, and ensures coordination of the goals of culture and education.