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Distinguished Alumni Award

Emeritus Professor of Teaching and Learning, Department of Teaching and Learning, The Ohio State University

David Bloome is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Teaching and Learning of The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology. Bloome’s research focuses on how people use spoken and written language for learning in classroom and non-classroom settings, and how people use language to create and maintain social relationships, to construct knowledge, and to create communities, social institutions, and shared histories and futures.  Bloome’s current scholarship focuses on the social construction of intertextuality, discourse analysis, narrative performance and development, students as researchers and ethnographers of their own communities, and the teaching and learning of argumentative writing. He is also researching and translating Yiddish children’s literature. Among the leadership positions Bloome has held are president of the National Council of Teachers of English and president of the National Council of Research on Language and Literacy.  Bloome is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including: the Literacy Research Association’s Oscar Causey Award for Reading Research, the NCTE Distinguished Service Award, the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, and the John J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA Language and Social Processes SIG.  Bloome is currently a co-editor of Research in the Teaching of English, former co-editor of Reading Research Quarterly,  and former co-editor and the founder of Linguistics and Education.  Bloome is the author or co-author of more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. He is the author or co-author of 11 books and editor or co-editor of seven books.  

Five Bullet Points of Noteworthy Events in Career:

• Bloome’s scholarship on Reading as Social Process helped open up new directions for research and the teaching of reading and literacy.
• Recipient of the premier award in his field, the Oscar Causey Award for Reading Research from the Literacy Research Association
• Former President of the National Council of Teachers of English
• The impact of Bloome’s scholarship is widespread as his scholarship has been cited in over 14,000 scholarly articles and books.
• Bloome’s latest book, co-authored with Evelyn B. Freeman, Rosemary Horowitz, and Laurie Katz, titled  Enduring Questions: Jewish Children’s Literature in the Classroom, is introducing Jewish children’s literature to public school classrooms throughout the country.