Westernization as Lingua Franca: Historical and Discursive Patterns of Hegemony in Global Higher Education Page: 5
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goal of continued imposition of a Western universality, the field of higher education has borne a
hierarchy of global academic forms which are ordered by their proximity to Western knowledge
(Downey et al., 2022). Epistemic privilege of the West has resulted in a globalized deficit
thinking towards knowledge sets and ways of knowing from the Global South.
Calls for the decentering of Western paradigms have grown in recent years as critical de-
westernization takes form as an epistemological revolution. This cognitive justice movement is
based on the epistemicide (Santos, 2014) or historical displacement of native/non-hegemonic
systems of knowledge around the world (Ndofirepi & Gwaravanda, 2019) and works towards the
upholding of all forms of knowledge. Alter-globalization, a movement that protests the predatory
nature of economic globalization, has confronted colonial and hegemonic knowledge
recognizing the growing links with higher education. The efforts to decenter the West's
universality and rewrite the West-washed global canon persists. However, the intricacies of
modern westernization require much untangling.
Problem Statement
In this study I analyzed regional journal articles and calls for improved global higher
education at the regional and supranational level to explain how Western hegemony has been
translated and sustained linguistically and historically.Purpose Statement
The purpose of this study was to understand how Western systems of higher education
have been extended, translated, and sustained across the world through supranational and
regional influence. This study enhanced and furthered understanding on the creation and
sustainment of Western educational hegemony at macro-levels around the world through both a
discursive and historical lens, as well as through understandings of the current world order5
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Moore, Mallory Carson. Westernization as Lingua Franca: Historical and Discursive Patterns of Hegemony in Global Higher Education, dissertation, May 2024; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2332627/m1/14/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .