ABSTRACT
Studies of global or comparative education have offered ample evidence for the global and worldwide expansion of education. Even before designating the current state of affairs as knowledge society or knowledge economy, in which the role of knowledge production is reserved for education and science, education and science were regarded as the foundation for progress. The global dimensions of scientized education are a result of two intertwined processes: the dramatic expansion of education worldwide and global scientization. By imbuing organizations and people with agency, scientized education constructs citizenship. Personhood, or actorhood in general, is the theme that runs through the relations between scientization and both organization and citizenship. The worldwide processes of rationalization of organization, citizenship, and personhood that are facilitated by scientized education are hallmarks of the current era of globalization. The massive expansion of primary, secondary, and lately also tertiary education declares schools and universities as the central arena for socialization into world society.
