Douglas K. Hartman

Douglas K. Hartman
Occupation(s)educational researcher and professor
Known forArtificial intelligence in education, digital literacy, teacher preparation, and global learning initiatives.
Academic background
EducationPh.D. in Language & Literacy
Alma materUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Douglas K. Hartman (born 1958) is an educational researcher and professor. His work includes artificial intelligence in education, digital literacy, teacher preparation, and global learning initiatives.[1]

He is a faculty member at Michigan State University,[2] where he holds the position of Professor of Technology and Human Learning in the College of Education. He also holds joint appointments in the departments of Teacher Education and Educational Psychology.

Early life

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

Education

In 1981, he received a B.S. in Social Science from Warner Pacific University, where he was a student-athlete, and subsequently worked as a middle school teacher and coach in Oregon and California. In 1986, he received an M.A. in Literacy & Language from California State University, Fresno. In 1991, he received his Ph.D. in Language & Literacy from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.[2]

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Career

Since the 1990s, Hartman has held faculty positions at universities in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Michigan. He has co-authored approximately 50 scholarly works, including journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports. One of his edited volumes, Stories Teachers Tell (co-edited with Richard Donato), was adapted into a reader's theater production and performed off-Broadway in New York City.

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.[3]

Selected publications

  • Eight readers reading: The intertextual links of proficient readers reading multiple passages, Reading Research Quarterly, 520-561[4]
  • 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[5]
  • Intertextuality and reading: The text, the reader, the author, and the context., Linguistics and education 4, 295-311[6]

References

  1. ^ "Douglas K. Hartman | Michigan State University - Academia.edu". michiganstate.academia.edu. Retrieved 2025-04-06.
  2. ^ a b "Douglas K. Hartman | College of Education - Michigan State University". Michigan State University. Retrieved 2025-07-06.
  3. ^ Moore, D.W.; E Monaghan; D. K. Hartman (1997). "Values of Literacy History". Reading Research Quarterly. 32 (1): 90–102. doi:10.1598/RRQ.32.1.6.
  4. ^ Hartman, Douglas K. (1995). "Eight readers reading: The intertextual links of proficient readers reading multiple passages". Reading Research Quarterly. 30 (3): 520–561. doi:10.2307/747631. JSTOR 747631.
  5. ^ Leu, Donald J.; Coiro, Julie; Castek, Jill; Hartman, Douglas K.; Henry, Laurie A.; Reinking, David (2008). "Research on instruction and assessment in the new literacies of online reading comprehension" (PDF). Comprehension Instruction: Research-based Best Practices. 2: 321–346.
  6. ^ Hartman, Douglas K. (1992). "Intertextuality and Reading: The Text, the Reader, the Author, and the Context". Linguistics and Education. 4 (3–4): 295–311. doi:10.1016/0898-5898(92)90005-H. ISSN 0898-5898.