February 13, 2023
5:45 p.m.
Wexner Center for the Arts, Film/Video Theater
4:30 – 5:30 p.m. reception in Mershon Lobby
The College of Education and Human Ecology Legacy Lecture series highlights the academic legacies of EHE faculty emeriti. Each year, 2-3 former faculty are invited to deliver a brief TED style talk reflecting on their academic legacy (research, teaching, and service) and offering their perspectives on the future directions of their areas of study. The individual talks are followed by a moderated discussion. If you have any questions please email ehe-events@osu.edu.
Legacy Lecture Virtual Premiere
Wednesday, February 22
5 – 6:30 p.m.
2023 Speakers
DAVID BLOOME
David Bloome is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Teaching and Learning of The Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology. Before retiring, he had been EHE Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning and for several years had been Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. He established the Center for Video Ethnography and Discourse Analysis (now called CDAVE), and he established the Columbus Area Writing Project.
Bloome is the recipient of numerous honors and awards including: the Distinguished Scholar Award from the National Conference on Research in Language and Literacy, the , John J. Gumperz Lifetime Achievement Award from AERA, he was inducted in the Reading Hall of Fame, he is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, and he is a recipient of the College of Education Dean’s Distinguished Scholarship Award.
Bloome is currently a co-editor of Research in the Teaching of English (with Mollie Blackburn, Dorian Harrison, Michiko Hikida, Laurie Katz, and Stephanie Power-Carter) and he is a former co-editor of Reading Research Quarterly (with Ian Wilkinson) and former co-editor and the founder of the journal 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 10 books and editor or co-editor of seven books. His latest books are: Enduring questions: Using Jewish children’s literature in the elementary school classroom (2023; with Evelyn Freeman, Rosemary Horowitz, and Laurie Katz), Discourse analysis of languaging and literacy events in educational settings: A Microethnographic perspective (2022; with Stephanie Power-Carter, W. Douglas Baker, Maria Lucia Castanheira, Minjeong Kim, and Lindsey Rowe), and Teaching Literature Using Dialogic Literary Argumentation (2020, with Matt Seymour, Theresa Thanos, and George Newell).
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. Building on sociolinguistic, anthropological, and cognitive perspectives of language and literacy learning, Bloome’s research focuses on children in preschool, early elementary, middle childhood, and early adolescence. Bloome’s current scholarship focuses on five areas related to writing and reading education: (1) the social construction of intertextuality as part of the reading, writing, and learning processes, (2) discourse analysis as a means for understanding reading, writing, and literacy events in and outside of classrooms, (3) narrative development among young children as a foundation for learning and literacy development in schools, (4) students as researchers and ethnographers of their own communities, and (5) the teaching and learning of argumentative writing.
Cynthia K. Buettner
Cynthia K. Buettner, Ph.D. is a Professor Emeritus in the college of Education and Human Ecology at the Ohio State University. During her tenure, she served as the Chair of the Human Development and Family Science Program in the Department of Human Sciences and as the Director of the Ohio Collaborative, a research and policy analysis center focused on conducting studies to inform local and state policy issues.
Professor Buettner earned her Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Human Development and Family Science from the Ohio State University (2004), her Master of Arts in Interpersonal Communication from Bowling Green State University (1994), and her Bachelor of Arts in Classical Languages, Speech and Theater, and Education from Heidelberg College (1976). Prior to her time at Ohio State University, she worked as an administrator for a non-profit focused on school reform efforts and as a small business owner.
Dr. Buettner’s broad research interests centered on prevention of at-risk behaviors and systems of support for vulnerable populations. She had two major lines of funded research while at Ohio State. The first was on risk-drinking among young adults. This research was supported by NIAAA, and findings contributed to both empirical and theoretical understanding of the phenomenon. The second focused on early childhood care and education in general, and on early childhood teacher characteristics in particular, with ultimate goal of both her research and her translational work aimed at improving children’s social-emotional outcomes. She had numerous research publications and presentations in these areas and was the recipient of both department and college faculty research awards.
She was the Principal Investigator for many applied research and service projects centered on the use of data and evidence-based practices in academic settings, coaching-based professional development systems, and bringing research to policymakers. She worked with Columbus City Schools on using data to drive improvement in system and student outcomes. She worked with the state of Ohio to understand teacher training and employment issues, to evaluate minority student promotion programs, and articulation barriers for transferring college students. Dr. Buettner led the AmeriCorps funded project, Kid Corps, which paired hundreds of OSU undergraduates with children in Head Start centers where they led pre-literacy and social-emotional skills building activities; and she directed the Department of Defense (DOD) Office of Special Needs Education Directory for Children with Special Needs project. She also led the early evaluations of Ohio’s Quality Rating and Improvement System (Step Up to Quality).
As the principal investigator of the Virtual Laboratory School, an ongoing project she led for over a decade, Dr. Buettner was responsible for building a research-based professional development system to support the more than 30,000 early care and education professionals working within the DOD child development centers and school-age child and youth programs. Through working closely with the Office of the Secretary of Defense and leadership in Child and Family policy in the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines, the VLS content is now publicly available (www.virtuallabschool.org) and recognized by the Council for Professional Recognition (CDA credential), the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and the federal Administration for Children and Families as high quality professional development that can be used with any child and youth caregiver/teacher. Dr. Buettner was also instrumental in establishing the VLS Momentum project in Columbus, which used the VLS system to improve the credentials of early childhood teachers working in centers serving low-income families. In connection with her VLS work, she spearheaded the effort to establish OSU’s online AA degree in Early Childhood Development and Education, in alignment with the US Administration for Children and Families efforts to have early childhood training lead to credentials and degrees for the early care and education workforce.
Since her retirement in 2021, Dr. Buettner continues to consult on early childhood education research projects, while enjoying time with family (especially her amazingly wonderful granddaughter, Moxie Buettner), working in her art studio, and volunteering with the Delaware County Master Gardeners.
