Abstract
The paper describes the role of globalization processes in the modern education. The authors think that the comprehension of both negative and positive aspects of the process depends on the appropriately highlighted key points in the understanding of this phenomenon essence. In the paper, the authors highlight the significance of understanding and quality assessment of that penetration extent when the globalization acts as the creative activity and promotes education optimization and note the fact that education becomes polyfunctional and its objective is to form a person keeping its personal identity and having global sense of the world processes. The solution of challenge characterized by the society facing the difficulties of globalized world is possible under the conditions of transfer from economic and institutional modernization to the social and cultural modernization. The goals of a new stage of the education modernization is the ensuring of positive socialization and educational successfulness of each student, the increasing participation of education in the innovative development of Russia and the response to challenges of changed cultural and social environment. Meanwhile, it is noted that not each country attempts to take active position in education modernization / transformation in the context of globalization processes. The authors suppose that in future, the educational system characterized by the multidimensionality and the integrity should be created taking into account the different states positions and the changes on the institutional and personal levels. An active part in development of this system should be assigned to teachers having system understanding of innovative processes, education development tendencies, able to use the criteria and methods of assessment of education development efficiency, and understanding the mechanisms of control of innovations in education.