Allan Feldman, PhD

Allan is Professor Emeritus of Science Education at the University of South Florida, and Emeritus Professor Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He began at UMass in 1993 as an assistant professor and retired from there in 2009. He then joined the faculty of the College of Education at the University of South Florida (USF) that August. While at UMass his work focused on the preparation of new secondary science teachers, and advising doctoral students in both science education and Teacher Education and School Improvement (TESI). He was a founding member of TESI and served as its coordinator for several years. He was interim chair of the Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies department in spring 2006. He was also one of the founders of the STEM Education Institute and its associate director from 1996-2009. From 2004-2009 Dr. Feldman was Director of the Pioneer Valley PreK-16 STEM Pipeline Network. At USF he helped establish the Teacher Education Doctoral concentration and was Associate Director for Educational Innovation at the David C. Anchin Center for the Advancement of Teaching. 

Dr Feldman's scholarship includes a focus on the ways in which people learn to engage in science and engineering practices in apprenticeship situations, including middle and high school science classes, and research experiences for teachers (RETs) and for undergraduates (REUs). He also studies how inservice science teachers learn from their practice in a variety of subjects including physics, environmental education, and education for sustainability in formal and informal settings. Dr. Feldman has been PI and co-PI of 18 NSF projects, many of which have been in collaboration school districts, and with colleagues in the sciences and engineering. These include environmental studies of acid mine drainage, arsenic in the environment, algal biofuels, and water and wastewater treatment. He has published 114 peer reviewed articles, book chapters, and conference proceedings. In addition, he is lead author of the book Teachers investigate their work: An introduction to action research across the professions, which was published by Taylor & Francis in 2018. He was also co-editor of the book Educating Science Teachers for Sustainability, which was published in 2015 by Springer. His most recent book is titled Dialogic Collaborative Action Research in Science Education unpublished in 2023 by Taylor & Francis. His co-authors are three of his former doctoral students from USF. In addition, he currently serves as one of the editors of the journal, Educational Action Research. Before receiving his doctorate, he taught middle and high school science for 17 years in public and private schools in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.