ELITOLOGY OF EDUCATION IN THE CONTEXT OF MODERN CHALLENGES AND THREATS
The real world is undergoing serious transformational changes associated with the crisis of the globalist (monopolar and multicultural) project and the growth of post-industrial trends. The role of many professional elite communities is changing in these conditions, the accents of their assessment and role in the global social process are changing. Since there are elites in every area of professional activity, it becomes necessary to study the phenomenon of the elite precisely from the point of view of the community of certain selected groups responsible for shaping the response to the challenge of their era. The purpose of this work is to show the role of elite (open and high-quality) university education in the formation of professional qualities of modern elite communities. The authors use a whole range of methods in their work, from dialectics and hermeneutics to comparative studies and semiotics. This set of research methods allows us to penetrate deep into the qualitative parameters of elite communities, to give them a comprehensive assessment. In this regard, a special role is assigned to the principles of personalism, which reveal the depth of the elite personality and the meaning of its creative process. Namely this task - the disclosure of the meaning of the creativity of outstanding personalities - is a new word in the development of modern elitology, as the science of the elite (form) and elite (content). The result of this work is the substantiation of the need for elite education in the implementation of meritocratic projects and the gradual rejection of the dominance of oligarchic interference in its technological processes. The novelty of this situation lies in the fact that universities have to strengthen their qualitative potential in a transitional period - from late industrialism to early post-industrialism, which leaves its mark on this entire process.