David Bloome, Ph.D.

Professor

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Contact Info:

• E-mail: bloome.1@osu.edu
• Office: 216B Ramseyer
• Phone: (614) 688-3051
• Fax: (614) 292-4260

Mailing Address:

• 29 W. Woodruff Ave.
• Columbus, OH 43210-1177

Biographical Information:

I am a professor and researcher interested in how people use written language to construct knowledge and learning opportunities, to construct social relationships and social identity, to create collective memory, to connect people and events across time and space, and to improve their communities and the various "worlds" in which they live. I am interested in the potential of classroom education (preschool through high school) for connecting academic learning and local knowledge and for building communities. I am interested in the teaching and learning of reading and writing in ways that have meaning for students, their families, and their communities, and that integrate academic excellence with social justice.

I am currently involved in two long term, collaborative research projects. The first focuses on young children's spoken and written narrative development. This research project seeks new ways to understand how children might acquire a repertoire of narrative and storytelling practices (both spoken and written) for a broad range of uses and situations. (This project is conducted in collaboration with Professor Laurie Katz of Ohio State and Professor Tempii Champion of Long Island University). The second project focuses on reading comprehension as a set of intertextual practices. (This project is conducted in collaboration with Susan Goldman of the University of Illinois at Chicago). Instead of viewing reading comprehension as the understanding of a single text, reading comprehension is defined as creating meaning by bringing together multiple texts. Much of my research involves ethnographic research, the use of video recordings, discourse analysis, and close collabortion with teachers.

My research and my teaching are grounded in my experiences as a former language arts and reading teacher. I have taught at the upper elementary through high school levels; I also directed a reading clinic. Currently, I am a co-director of the Columbus Area Writing Project.

Education

• 1981 - Ph.D. Kent State University

Activities

I have been privileged to serve in several leadership positions in the field of literacy research and education. These include: President of the National Council of Teachers of English, President of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, co-chair AERA Division G Section 1, co-chair AERA Division C Section 9, Chair AERA Special Interest Group on Language and Social Processes. I founded and was co-editor of the research journal, Linguistics and Education. I am currently the editor (with Professor Ian Wilkinson) of Reading Research Quarterly. Among the awards I have received is the 2006 College of Education Dean's Distinguished Scholarship Award.

Selected Grants

• Research Grant from the Spencer Foundation , "Using Multiple Texts for Academic Learning; Social and Cognitive Perspectives." (1997-2002) (With Susan Goldman).
• Research Grant from the U.S. Department of Education. "Student Achievement From A Whole Day Whole Year Perspective." (1996) (With J. Bransford, S. Goldman, & T. Hasselbring).
• Research Grant from the National Council of Teachers of English Research Foundation: "African-American Preschoolers as Storytellers: Developing A Repertoire of Spoken and Written Narrative Styles." (1996) (with Laurie Katz and Tempii Champion)

Selected Publications

• Bloome, D., Carter, S., Christian, B., Otto, S., & Shuart-Faris, N. (2005). Discourse analysis and the study of classroom language and literacy events A Microethnographic approach. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Shuart-Faris, N., & Bloome, D. (Eds.). (2005). Intertextuality and Research on Classroom Education. Greenwich, CT: IAP.
• Bloome, D., Katz, L., & Champion, T. (2003). Young children's narratives and ideologies of language. Reading and Writing Quarterly, 19, 2, 205-224.
• Sheridan, D., Street, B., & Bloome, D. (2000). Writing Ourselves: Mass-Observation and Literacy Practices. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Egan-Robertson, A., & Bloome, D. (Eds.) (1998). Students as Researchers of Culture and Language in Their Own Communities. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
• Bloome, D, and Egan-Robertson, A. (1993). The social construction of intertextuality and classroom reading and writing. Reading Research Quarterly, 28, 4, 303-333.
• Bloome, D. Puro, P. & Theodorou, E. (1989). Procedural display and classroom lessons. Curriculum Inquiry, 19, 3, 265-291.
• Bloome, D. (1985). Reading as a social process. Language Arts, 62, 4, 134-142.

Courses

At Ohio State I teach courses on discourse analysis; writing in classrooms and community; language, literacy, and culture; among others.