Selahattin Turan (PhD) is Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy, College of Education, Bursa Uludağ University and received his B.A. from Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences and MA & Ph.D. from the Ohio University, the Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education in Educational Leadership. He was past president of the International Society for Educational Planning, past chair of the Division A-Ad Hoc International Committee of the AERA, past president of ECO Educational Institute and the dean of College of Education. His primary professional interests are theory in leadership, educational policy, and sociology of technology and alternative perspectives in education. Dr. Turan has co-authored many book chapters and on the editorial boards of many national and international journals. Dr. Turan has published widely in a variety of scholarly journals and presented papers at the annual meetings of AERA, ISEP, NCPEA and UCEA. His recent books include, Educational Administration (2021, ASOS), Research Methods in Education (2020, Nobel) and Demystifying Educational Leadership and Administration in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Prospects (2024, Routledge, with K. Arar, S. Gümüş, A. Sellami and J. Mahfouz).