Towards post‐globalisation? On the hegemony of western education and development discourses

Abstract

This article argues that local discourses are narrowed through globalisation policies and questions whether one can characterise as ‘post‐globalisation’ a state of global and local unification in one capitalist discourse. Further, the article critically engages with such a state of the world, questioning the export of neoliberal western education and development models. Through a case study of a literacy project in Senegal, the article seeks to demonstrate that discourses at local and regional levels are similar to those at international levels, and that a capitalist–development path is widely accepted in many local and traditional societies.