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247Educational Research Methodology Inspired by the Theory of EnactionThe New Educational Review 4 (62): 141-156. 2020.A theory of cognition and an interdisciplinary research program so-called enactivism put forward by Varela, Thompson, and Rosch since their book titled: “The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience had been published in 1991. The theory and research program proposed in this book can be explicated in terms of eight significant themes including autopoiesis, sense-making, emergence, experience, embodied mind, embedded mind, enacted mind and the extended mind. This paper is an interpre…Read more
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120Transdisciplinary Commitments in University CurriculumJournal of Theory Practice in Curriculum 12 (6): 5-42. 2018.Nowadays, there is a growing interest in transdisciplinary approach to university curriculum development, transdisciplinary Studies are about the realms, goals, and goals of the transition field. The early phases of transdisciplinary in higher education curriculum can be complex and so there are challenges to the definition and operationalization this approach to the university curriculum. In this paper, in respect to the different perspectives on the subject, the conceptual framework and the …Read more
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87Pluri-disciplinary; Against the Common Perception of Collaboration among DisciplinesJournal of Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 1 (7): 1-25. 2016.There are numerous kinds of definitions and discourses of conceptualization for the collaboration among disciplines. Examining a wide range of the related texts represents various, divergent, and also contradictory discourses back to this up. Carefully and critically examining the common perception of collaboration among disciplines, in this paper, authors introduce an alternative so-called pluridisciplinary. And, it is argued that pluri-disciplinary could be considered as an umbrella term for a…Read more
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95Para-quantitative Methodology: Reclaiming experimentalism in educational researchOpen Review of Educational Research 1 (2): 26-41. 2015.This article focuses on the criticisms of current approaches in educational research methodology. Itsummarizes rationales for mixed methods and argues that the mixing quantitative paradigm andqualitative paradigm is problematic due to practical and philosophical arguments. It is alsoindicated that the current rise of mixed methods work has increased problems with quantitativeand qualitative methods. In this article we offer a different symbolic system, with differentlogical form for describing e…Read more
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13Iranian philosophy of educationJournal of Educational Theory and Philosophy 55 (1): 15-20. 2023.The Persian intellectual tradition (religion, philosophy—theosophy/Hikmah and Irfan) refers to two distinct ‘spiritual worlds’—Zoroastrian and Islamic—with ‘the same Divine Origin’ and ‘certain pro...
Professor Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
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Ferdowsi University of MashhadProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Other Academic Areas |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Philosophical Traditions |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |