EDUCATION IN NETWORK SOCIETY: ХХI CENTURY SKILLS
The article is dedicated to the analysis of processes taking place in education at the stage of network society establishment. It discusses characteristics of di erent aspects ofthe education system structure, the content of the educationaldiscourse. It was demonstrated that in the process of social change, a new type of social commissioning is being formed: competencies that allow implementing principles of knowledgedigital economy - XXI century skills - are in greater demand now. It is assumed that XXI century skills are becoming a central element of global educational agenda.Competency-based approach makes it possible to focus efforts of the education community on the development of humans, on changing their way of thinking also due to the ‘doubling’ of the social reality - the emergence of its virtual and real components (with the distance between them narrowing down rapidly).The authors of the article attempt to analyze academic results of Russian school students in a number of national and international research monitoring the education quality. They are considered in the context of evaluating the level of competencies development, first of all, the functional literacy following the competency-based approach (literacy in reading, natural sciences, mathematics as elements of functional literacy). The article also presents the authors’ point of view on the analysis of procedures for the research of educational quality, taking the Unified State Exam as an example.