Change the world
2024 HETL Conference, South Africa
Mukhtar Raban is a lecturer in the Faculty of Humanities at Nelson Mandela University. He is the institutional coordinator of the Humanising Pedagogy project in the Office of the DVC: Learning and Teaching. He also serves as an associate director of teaching and learning at the International Open University. He is a former research fellow of UCT’s Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching. After teaching in English as a Second Language (ESL) programmes in colleges in the Middle East, he joined the university’s Linguistics and Applied Linguistics department. He currently lectures in professional English communication and language learning and teaching modules in the Faculties of Humanities and Education. He was awarded the university’s ‘Excellent Teacher of the Year’ in 2015. His research interests include technology-enhanced language learning, language acquisition theory, educational philosophy, humanising pedagogies, digital humanities and open learning. He has presented at a few conferences, and is currently completing a PhD in education at UCT with a focus on critical digital language pedagogies.