ABSTRACT
Globalization is a term now circulating frequently in both popular media as well as formal academic disciplines. It has many meanings, some of which are contestable, others simply descriptive. This chapter attempts to lay out the general parameters of the term as it has evolved historically and, in the process, explore some implications of globalization for the field of curriculum studies. Basically, my argument is that there are three forms of globalization operating in the world today: Globalization One, Two, and Three. Globalization One is the dominant form arising from what can broadly be called the revival of radical liberalism, or neoliberalism, dating back to the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s. Globalization Two represents the various ways that people around the world are responding to Globalization One through acts of accommodation or resistance. Globalization Three speaks to the conditions that may be emerging for a new kind of global dialogue regarding sustainable human futures. Especially in this last context, I restrict my remarks to the realm of curriculum and pedagogy.
