PhD Student | Public Scholar
Jafar Iqbal is a PhD student in the Adult Education and Learning (ALE) program in EDST. His research explores garment workers’ experiences of education and learning in pursuit of social justice. Drawing on Bengali adult education traditions, particularly Lalon, Tagore, and Nazrul’s ideas on language-, land-, and labor-based learning, his study employs an ethnographic approach to examine workers’ education in Bangladesh.
Before joining UBC, he studied international and comparative adult education at Penn State University’s College of Education. His research interests were shaped through both academic training and direct experience in workers’ education programs with the International Labour Organization (ILO), a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN). He teaches Social Institutions of Education, and Teaching Adults at EDST as a sessional lecturer and is also a UBC Public Scholar.
Supervisor: Jude Walker