David Bloome named EHE Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning.

From the College of Education and Human Ecology announcement:

“David’s career embodies the college ideal for excellence by seamlessly integrating teaching, research and service. He has said in the past that his many honors ‘really belong to the teachers, pupils, families, colleagues and doctoral students with whom I have been privileged to work and who have inspired me with their courage, talent, insight and dedication.’  David may be modest, but his accomplishments belie his words.

As co-director of the Columbus Area Writing Project, his work is closely tied to classroom teachers’ needs. He researches reading and literacy as intertextual practice, young children’s spoken and written narratives, time and classroom learning opportunities, and argumentative writing and reading.

The Reading Hall of Fame member also studies discourse analysis, how people use written language to construct knowledge and learning opportunities, as well as to construct social relationships and social identity, to create collective memory, to connect people and events across time and space, and to improve the communities in which they live.

Earlier this year, David received a rare honor for education scholars, an American Educational Research Association Fellowship. Previously, AERA honored him with its Outstanding Reviewer Award in 2007. He also received the College of Education Dean’s Distinguished Scholarship Award, Ohio State University, in 2006.

He has served as president of the National Council of Teachers of English, president of the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, co-chair of AERA Division G Section 1, co-chair of AERA Division C Section 9, and chair of the AERA Special Interest Group on Language and Social Processes.

In addition, he founded and was co-editor of the international research journal, Linguistics and Education. He is co-editor of the International Reading Association journal, Reading Research Quarterly, with Ian Wilkinson, Teaching and Learning. He is author or co-author of five books and editor or co-editor of five more, and has written more than 100 academic journal articles and book chapters.

David came to Ohio State in 2003 from Peabody College of Education, Vanderbilt University. Previously he was on the faculty of the universities of Massachusetts, Amherst and Michigan. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, in 1992-93.

He earned his doctorate from Kent State University in 1981 after teaching English and reading in public schools in Ohio and New York.