Call for Chapter Submissions Deadline: August 31, 2014 NELSON MANDELA: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES OF HIS SIGNIFICANCE FOR EDUCATION Editors: Crain Soudien (University of Cape Town) SENSE PUBLISHERS, ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. This book is about the significance of Nelson Mandela for the practice and theory of education. With his passing in December 2013 several colleagues within the World Council of Comparative Education Societies community felt that it would be fitting for the World Council as an organisation that had come into being to promote respect and understanding and the development of people everywhere through education to honour what he stood for. In pursuit of this, the World Council has decided that it will host a panel session at the Beijing Conference in 2015 in his memory and to support the publication of a book about his significance for education. This call invites interested scholars to make contributions to this book. In undertaking this project, we propose to start a conversation about the significance of Mandela's ideas for the work we do in education around the world. We invite prospective authors to reflect on what his life, the commitments he makes and principally the values he takes into the struggle for freedom in South Africa mean for education. The point of departure for the book is that of honouring the man. It begins with the argument that the values for which he stood, namely, the unconditional dignity of all human beings, respect for difference and principally his lifelong commitment to justice, have a special significance for how we as inhabitants of an increasingly connected and interdependent world conduct our personal lives, our relationships with one another and with the material and living space which surrounds us. As the world moves into a twenty-first century where, paradoxically, we know so much and yet appear to understand so little, and so find ourselves struggling to create social lives in which all of us can feel respected, can offer respect to others and live lives free of fear and anxiety, the values for which he stood have specific relevance for what we do in our educational work. The question his life poses for us is that of how we are preparing young people to engage with the paradoxes of our modernity and to make it better. To give this book the seriousness it deserves it cannot be hagiographical. Mandela himself would not have approved of such an approach. We invite, therefore, scholars to reflect critically on Mandela for thinking about the educational issues and challenges in the different parts of the world from which they come. We invite contributions that will approach the subject in any way that authors think will most appropriately make the point they wish to bring across. This may mean taking a personal, historical, empirical or theoretical approach. We ask, however, that authors

consider the global context into which they are writing and so to bear in mind the significance of their contributions for challenges beyond their own immediate settings. There are two deadlines for this project: 1. Proposals. Please send a short proposal of no more than 300 words by April 30th, 2014. Responses will be provided within two weeks to these initial proposals. 2. Final submission. Manuscripts must be submitted by 31 August 2014. Format of Submissions • Papers should be between 6000 and 8000 (words) in length, including references • Submit in Word format (.doc or .docx) or rich text format (rtf) • Follow APA guidelines for style. • Figures, Tables, Photographs? • Submit electronically to Crain Soudien at [email protected] Manuscripts will be blind-reviewed. Feedback and responses to authors will be sent by 29 September 2014.