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This book chapter is largely a narrative version of a plenary keynote address I delivered on 2 November 2013 titled “Facing Academic Minders, the Instruments of Institutional Interference in Higher Education” at the Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education International Conference organized through the Centre for Global Citizenship Education and Research at the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada).
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Samek, T. (2015). Facing Academic Minders, The Instruments of Institutional Interference in Higher Education. In: Abdi, A.A., Shultz, L., Pillay, T. (eds) Decolonizing Global Citizenship Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-277-6_8
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