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Allan Feldman

Emeritus Professor of Science Education

Email: afeldman@usf.edu
Office: USF Tampa campus, EDU 308I
Phone: 813-956-3473

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Allan Feldman is Emeritus Professor of Science Education in the College of Education at the 麻豆视频 (USF). Before arriving at USF, he was a professor of science education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass), where he began in 1993 as an assistant professor. From 2019-2021 he was Associate Director for Educational Innovation of the David C. Anchin Center, and while a faculty member at UMass was Associate Director of the university-wide STEM Education Institute. Before receiving his doctorate from Stanford University, he taught middle and high school science for 17 years in public and private schools in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Dr. Feldman鈥檚 scholarship focuses 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. He 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. The projects 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. Dr. Feldman鈥檚 most recent book is , published by Taylor and Francis in 2023. His co-authors are three of his former doctoral students from USF. In addition, he is lead author of the book , which was published by Taylor & Francis in 2018. He was also co-editor of the book , which was published in 2015 by Springer. Dr. Feldman is co-editor of the international journal, .