Professor Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki is Chair of the Department of Foundations of Education in the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran. He has served as a visiting professor at several international institutions, including OISE/University of Toronto (2002–2003), Michigan State University (2010), the University of Warsaw (2015), and Western Sydney University (2015–2016). Additionally, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Foundations of Education.