About
Dr Ali Akbar is working as a post-doctoral researcher in the
institute of education at the university of Derby, United Kingdom. He has
worked and lived in different European and south Asian countries and taught to
students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. His doctoral
research was “an exploration of teachers’ and students’ perspectives on the
effective teaching of the critical interpretation of the sacred text in
multilingual classrooms”. He has worked on many diverse topics including
strategies for inclusive teaching, teaching religiously sensitive issues in
multicultural classrooms, engaging children with special needs in spiritual
activities at Faith based schools and their impact on their well-being. He is
currently working on representation of disabled people in Muslim
scriptures.
He taught previously at Minhaj university Lahore, the University of
Central Punjab, and the university of Lahore and taught functional English and
business communication, faith and culture, speech, language and communication, language
and society, inclusive teaching and learning, and critical pedagogy. All these
subjects enable him to teach and explore diversity and inclusion through
international and diverse lens.