Dr. Claire Alkouatli has a PhD in Human Development, Learning, and Culture from the University of British Columbia, in Canada, with a master’s specialization in social and emotional development and a doctoral specialization in Measurement, Evaluation, and Research Methodology (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9717-9614). She is currently a Lecturer with the Center for Islamic Thought and Education at the University of South Australia, teaching a graduate-level course on Islamic pedagogy. She is also a Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College, inquiring into Muslim youth development, and an Assistant Professor at Prince Sultan University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her qualitative research focuses on the roles of culture, relationships, and pedagogies in expanding human development across the lifespan—with children, youth, teachers, and parents—and drawing upon the philosophical foundations of education to enrich educational practice, with focus on imaginative play, dialogue, inquiry, and challenge. Dr. Alkouatli recently led a multi-site Design Experiment examining imaginative play in Muslim educational contexts with researchers in Abu Dhabi, Beirut, Riyadh, and Toronto. She is currently leading a conceptual study on Islamic research paradigms. As a teacher educator, Dr. Alkouatli’s expertise includes supporting teachers to integrate contemporary, evidence-based, and culturally-specific approaches to education; teacher selftransformation; and pedagogies as catalysts of learning and development for both teachers and learners. She has contributed to designing curricula for elementary schools, creative community playgroups, youth development programs, and teacher education programs in Australia, Canada, and Saudi Arabia.