Democratization of education is considered as a key direction of reforming the education sector in Ukraine. One of its key aspects is full-fledged informatization, which includes both technological and educational, ideological, value, lifecreating parameters. Effective democratization and informatization of the educational process allow to prepare a person for successful self-realization in an open society of sustainable development. The defining features of the new model of education are the democratization and informatization of the educational process, management activities in this sphear. Democratization of education is aimed primarily at raising the quality of educational services, ensuring comprehensive flexibility of the education system. Also, the democratization of education involves the individualization of learning – creating opportunities for each subject to build their own direction of the educational process within existing standards and ensure the implementation of individual methods in the educational process. In turn, the informatization of education in Ukraine involves the following steps: equipping educational institutions with information technology; transformation of the nature of education due to the development of informatization of society, combining the benefits of traditional education with the possibilities of information technology; creation of a single information educational space, etc. It is emphasized that the main guideline for the modernization of Ukrainian education at the turn of the century should be the philosophy of education of a society of sustainable human development. The role of the philosophy of education for sustainable development becomes especially relevant in connection with the need to form in the citizens of Ukraine a global, planetary, environmentally oriented worldview aimed at overcoming the shortcomings of consumer psychology. The philosophy of education of the society of sustainable human development orients the person on values of comfortable and safe existence, creative and stable existence in the conditions of various crises and dangers
education reform, democratization, informatization, sustainable development, open society