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What does Nelson Mandela mean for the great task of education? What might one take away from a study of his writing, speeches and actions? Appropriated often as he is behind the cause of education, there is not, as yet, in seeking an immediate answer to the question, a serious corpus of writing from which one can extract what one might call a Mandela approach to education. Most uses of Mandela in education are invocational.
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Soudien, C. (2017). The Provocation of Nelson Mandela. In: Soudien, C. (eds) Nelson Mandela. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-908-9_13
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