Kadir Bahar

~ During 2024-2025 academic year, Dr. Bahar will be on research leave as a visiting scholar at the Center for Education Efficacy, Excellence, and Equity (E4) at Northwestern University’s School of Education and Social Policy (SESP). ~

Dr. Bahar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in Education. Dr. Bahar’s research focuses on talent development, advanced academics, and teaching for creativity in STEM areas, with a specific focus on mathematics learning. Specifically, he investigates excellence gaps in advanced academic programs at urban public schools. Along with this, he investigates how counterspaces can be leveraged to bridge these excellence gaps in the K-12 settings. The second line of his research work focuses on teaching for creativity, with a focus on the role of teachers and teacher practices in the development of creativity in the classroom.

Currently Dr. Bahar serves as the co-editor of Gifted and Talented International, and he is on the editorial board of the Gifted Child Quarterly, Journal of Advanced Academics, and Gifted Education International. Dr. Bahar’s research has appeared in journals including Gifted Child Quarterly, Roeper Review, and Thinking Skills and Creativity. Dr. Bahar is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Emerging Scholar Award from the World Council for Talented Children and the Early Career Award from the NAGC Special Populations Network and the Ocie T. Dekle Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Georgia.