Emerging Excellent Teachers of the Year - award 2

Qawekazi Maqabuka

Ms Maqabuka’s teaching practice has been guided by four pillars: disciplinary depth, access, social justice and fairness, fostering the University principles of ubuntu, inclusion and academic excellence, and encouraging students to state their ideas in their mother tongue.  With the majority of students in undergraduate studies from a working-class background, the classroom must reflect that reality. She has also recently insisted that students use gender-inclusive language. 

 

Students’ voices start in the classroom, a safe space to find your voice on your own terms.