Westernization as Lingua Franca: Historical and Discursive Patterns of Hegemony in Global Higher Education Page: 16
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Education provides a key site for discursive struggle over versions of social
reality...discourses about the nature of social reality and of human nature itself, including
those about education and development provide the bricks and mortar, the final recourse
in relation to which hegemony and counter-hegemony are constructed and contested. (p.
178)
The complexity of cases with which this study concerned itself, much like the work of the
scholars mentioned above, necessitated, and justified the use of comparative-historical analysis
in this research. Context and causal processes are central to the understanding of macro- and
meso-level arenas, and comparative-historical analysis provided for that needed nuance through
consideration of both idiographic and nomothetic explanations (Lange, 2013). Studying
education's role in the development or hindrance of human and social capital worldwide must
"value the need for the internationalism, transnationalisation, and globalisation of the historical
objects, problems, and methods with a view to decentralising the historical analysis of specific
nations or regions" (Jeronimo & Monteiro, 2017, p. 3). Analysis of such topics requires the study
of the regional and global, the historical and contemporary, the hegemonic and communitive.
Theoretical Framework
This study should not be relegated to theoretical monism but to engage with pluralistic
views of global order. As stated by Santos (1998), "it is not possible to gather all resistance and
agents under the aegis of one common grand theory" (p. 126). To catalyze a successful study
focusing on macro-level, regional and global processes, it was paramount that I identified aheterogeneous band of ideological theories to account for the vast spectrum of explanations
regarding the current global standing. The literature review composed a genealogy of the
following two grand narratives, outlining the explanatory power that give merit to these schools
of thought.16
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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/m1/25/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .