The Modernization Theory in Comparative Education

Do you think modernization theory is, in a sense, the assumed position of many researchers in the field? I certainly think it's embedded in our frames of knowledge and part of that comes back to this, this history of comparative ed education as having the normative West. It's also, if we reflect on journal publications, some of the leading journals in our field published in English,. They are run mostly in the UK and in North America.