Knowledge Hierarchies in Transnational Education

<p>Transnational education seeks equivalence in standards and/or relevance of outcomes through the transfer of Western theories concepts and methods. Utilising a critique-interpretative approach Jing Qi argues that equivalence/relevance-oriented approaches to transnational education assume the legitimacy of the global knowledge hierarchy. Euro-American educational theories are imposed as defaults in non-Western educational communities of imagined consensus</p>