The Challenges of Today in Ukraine: Education for Sustainable Development

Purpose. A characteristic feature of sustainable development is balanced integration of its social, ecological and economic aspects in all institutions: state and administrative, private, civil, educational, scientific, etc. Education for balanced development is to become a new learning process which will equally include economic, social and ecological aspects and will become the lifelong learning process with a clear role of formal and informal education. Education for balanced development should be one of the important instruments of transition from stable production models and consumption, formation by the population of a new system of values conforming to the moderation culture and balanced development principles as a whole. Methods: SWOT-analisis, GAP-analisis, statistical, analytical. Results. Education development is to provide for the formation of ecologically responsible lifelong behaviour, formation of an integral (holistic), interdisciplinary approach in learning and knowing necessary for solving current global problems and advancement to the balanced, ecologically safe and economically stable future.