BIOGRAPHY

Shoba Rathilal is the staff development coordinator in CELT. She manages/co-manages multiple CELT projects:viz. Extended Curriculum programme (ECP) leadership and development; New Generation Academic Programme (nGAP) Co-ordination and Development; New Emerging Scholars Programme (NESP), and Curriculum Conversations (CC). Although her primary focus is staff development, she works across all aspects of academic development in CELT including student, curriculum and institutional development.

Shoba is driven by a transformative agenda for higher education and therefore subscribes to theories that allow for an unpacking and critique of the underlying generative mechanisms that result in particular practices within higher education, with an intent to explore possibilities to transform practices. Shoba’s research interest is in the area of literacies and numeracies. She has a special interest in engaging with research within the legitimation code theory framework. Her PhD thesis is titled Planning for Numeracy in Higher Education: A South African UOT case study.