The role of education in sustainable development

Texts referring to the sustainable development of organisations strongly emphasise the perspective of digitisation of the organisation’s functioning. The text indicates the current models of educational organisations, based on the typology by F. Laloux and indicates their adequacy to individual stages of the industrial revolution. Then, analysing these business models, one of the models in the context of sustainable development of the organisation, indicates the specificity of demand. The author also indicates one of the possible ways to obtain the desired model of the functioning of an educational organisation – presenting an appropriate case study. The theoretical background of the text was created on the basis of the analysis of the F. Laloux model and its reference to the realities of educational organisations. The types of organisation characteristic of the second, third and fourth industrial revolutions are indicated. While the types characteristic of the second and third industrial revolutions are widespread, the types characteristic of the fourth industrial revolution can take two forms. The author proposes one of them as more adequate to the challenges of education for sustainable development. The methodology of the presented choice of the type of organisation is based on a case study prepared on the basis of interviews with stakeholders of the educational institution.