Karthigeyan Subramaniam

Faculty, Teacher Education and Administration

Matthews Hall 218-S

Karthigeyan Subramaniam, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Science Education in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses focused on science teacher education. His scholarship focuses on preparation of elementary and secondary science teachers. Before coming to UNT in 2009, he was on the faculty of Penn State University-Harrisburg, where his position was in Elementary Teacher Education and Teaching and in the Curriculum Master’s Graduate Program. He has also been on the faculty of Adelphi University. His bachelor's degree is from the National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore, his master's degree is from University of Florida, at Gainesville, and his doctoral degree is from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Subramaniam, K., Khan, N., Long, C., Librea-Carden, M. R., &Asim, S. (2024). Female pre-service elementary teachers’ conceptualizations of engineers, and engineering: A critical consciousness perspective. Journal of Science Teacher Education. Accepted in Press
Subramaniam, K. (2024). Border crossing perspective of prospective teachers’ first-time science teaching experiences. Journal of Education for Teaching, 50(4). Accepted in Press/To be published September 2024.
Subramaniam, K. (2024). A Practice-Based Theory of Teaching Analysis of Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Prior Knowledge of Science Instruction. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 35(2), 176-197. https://doi.org/10.1080/1046560X.2023.2209758
Subramaniam, K. (2023). Minoritized pre-service teachers’ negotiated border crossings. Science &Education. First published online 20 September 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-023-00470-3
Subramaniam, K. (2023). A phenomenological study of pre-service elementary teachers’ first-time science teaching experiences: A focus on new lived experiences. Teaching Education, 34(2), 209-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/10476210.2022.2077928
Lee, E., Subramaniam, K., &Castro, D. C. (2023). Early childhood pre-service teachers’ descriptions of equity in science education: A thematic analysis. Early Childhood Education Journal,51(3). 483-492. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10643-022-01318-1
Subramaniam, K. (2023). Pre-Service teachers’ images of scientific practices: A social, epistemic, conceptual, and material dimensions perspective. Research in Science Education, 53(3), 633-649. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-022-10074-6
Long, C., Harrell, P., &Subramaniam, K., Pope, E., &Thompson, R. (2023). Strengthening elementary preservice teachers’ physical science content knowledge: A three-year study. Research in Science Education,53(3), 613-632. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11165-022-10071-9
Harrell, P., Subramaniam, K., Long, C., Thompson, R., &Pope, E. (2023). Increasing Hispanics in the educator workforce: A science methods intervention to improve passing rates on an elementary science certification examination. Journal of Latinos and Education, 22(4), 1612-1621. https://doi.org/10.1080/15348431.2021.2022486