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Abbas Madandar Arani I am an Associate Professor – at the Department of Education, Lorestan
University, Iran. My research and teaching interest is in the field of comparative education and
includes education reform in the context of globalization and internationalization, religion and
schooling, multiculturalism, Muslim education, education and higher education in Iran and the
Middle East countries, and educational management and leadership. I am currently working as a
president of Comparative Education Society of Iran (CESIR). I have been active in the Iranian
Sociology of Education Association and Iranian Higher Education Association and was awarded a
PhD scholarship in 2000 through cultural exchange between Iran and India (ICCR). I had some
presentations and published several articles in the area of comparative education at different
national and international journals. I have also coauthored five book chapters published in Hong
Kong, South Africa, the Netherlands, Canada, and Greece. I have participated and presented some
papers at international conferences on education in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Hong
Kong, India, Malaysia, Spain, Thailand, South Korea, the UK, the USA, and Turkey.
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