World institutions, world dispositions: Curriculum in the world-cultural institution of schooling

By now, questions of globalization and cultural hybridization, if not already passe, would be familiar to socially minded theorists of education. Clearly, many scholars and practitioners are attempting to understand how the recent rapidly changing social fabric of human existence impacts on, or carries implications for, our understanding of education and schooling. While much of this work is of great value and important, this essay comes at issues of globalization from a different starting point. That is, in this essay I attempt to demonstrate that a world theory of schooling and curriculum serves well as an explanation of some of the processes of globalization that have captured the attention of so many “globals.�?