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Introduction. The paper deals with power as a system of management tools, which acquires new features in critical periods of history. A cardinal change of socio-cultural paradigm has a fundamental impact on education too. The paper shows that the features that stem from global trends appear in modern education. In the context of globalization, many of the characteristic features of the educational system in the context of globalization are becoming universal. The author considers power as the basis of any social system, the idea about which is formed already at school. The paper also examines the features of power structures, which are manifested at the level of relationship between the state and society. The educational system accumulates many features of the traditional power in Russia. However, in the modern world there is observed a transformation of the basic social structures. For the formation of harmonious worldview of the younger generation, the activities of authorities are of great importance. In particular, the subject-object relationships in the educational process, that are characteristic of the classical education, have increasingly become the subject-subject ones. Methodology and methods of the research. The methodological basis of the paper is the general scientific approaches related to peculiarities of education as a social institution. In addition, the leading methods used for the cognition of social processes are maximally used. In particular, thanks to the comparative historical method, a possibility has appeared to identify the leading trends that characterize the modern social reality. This method allows comparing the situation in the educational system with other social processes. The author of the paper demonstrates the limits of use of foreign experience in conducting social reforms. The application of all the indicated methods, as well as the use of philosophical-theoretical basis, allow achieving the objectives formulated in this paper. The results of the research. A real reduction in the level of social tension in society is largely due to the imperfection of the managerial mechanisms that lag behind the requirements of our time. In the educational system, such problems could provoke new crisis phenomena, whose effects may occur in the future. The paper shows that the problem of effective control over the actions of authorities is becoming a priority. Of great importance are also various ways to improve the power mechanisms based on historical traditions. According to the author, the optimization of the power structure is largely due to the formation of the global-regional world, the basis of which is laid at the level of the educational system. The traditions formed in the society allow creating the optimal power structures that are clearly manifested in the education sphere in a given region. In particular, the difference between subjects and objects of educational activities is, in fact, eliminated. Based on the analysis of various concepts, the author concludes that social transformation requires new management approaches to the educational process. Conclusion. The power system in any country is closely linked to the educational system, and this makes topical the studying of the world managerial experience. However, optimization of the system of management and education in an era of changing socio-cultural paradigm involves taking into account the historical traditions of the particular society. That is why, in the near future, the role of the humanities education in the process of creating new concept of power and education will naturally increase.