Development education as a reflection of donor politics and a mechanism for social control.  Winner politics (e.g. USA in post cold war world) – no need to listen.  Local education authorities reduced to marketers of opportunities in such terms as to attract conditional funding.  Connected world does not democratise information since most of it is sourced within the prejudices of the North.  Little evidence of attempts to develop critical faculty or citizenship or other nationally valuable skills.  Tendency to reinforce established formal structures which perpetuate elites.

Generally destructive of established assumptions and challenging rather than offering an alternate point of view.