Douglas K. Hartman (born 1958) is an educational researcher and professor. His work includes

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in education,

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, teacher preparation, and global learning initiatives. He serves as Professor of Technology & Human Learning at the College of Education,

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, with joint appointments in Teacher Education and Educational Psychology.

Early life

Hartman was born to schoolteacher parents and spent his early years in

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and

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Education

In 1981, he got a B.S. in Social Science from

Warner Pacific University Warner Pacific University is a Private university, private Christian university in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1937, the university is Higher education accreditation in the United States, accredited by the Northwest Commission on ...

, where he was a student-athlete, and subsequently worked as a middle school teacher and coach in Oregon and

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. In 1986, he received an M.A. in Literacy & Language from

California State University, Fresno California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) is a public university in Fresno, California, United States. It is part of the California State University system. The university had a fall 2020 enrollment of 25,341 students. It offers 60 ba ...

. In 1991, he got his Ph.D. in Language & Literacy from the

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Career

Since the 1990s, Hartman has held faculty positions at universities in

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, and

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. He has co-authored nearly 50 scholarly works, including journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. His edited volume, ''Stories Teachers Tell'' (co-edited with Richard Donato), was adapted into a reader's theater production and performed off-Broadway in

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Research and contributions

Hartman has researched literacy history. His doctoral seminars have examined primary-source artifacts related to the history of literacy in America's Midwest and New England. He has been working on a biography of Edmund Burke Huey, who conducted North America's first study of reading, and delivered a keynote in Huey's persona at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Literacy Research Association.

Selected publications

* ''Eight readers reading: The intertextual links of proficient readers reading multiple passages'', Reading Research Quarterly, 520-561 * ''Research on instruction and assessment in the new literacies of online reading comprehension'', DJ Leu, J Coiro, J Castek, DK Hartman, LA Henry, D Reinking, Comprehension instruction: Research-based best practices 2, 321-346 * ''Intertextuality and reading: The text, the reader, the author, and the context.'', Linguistics and education 4, 295-311

References

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