Frederick Erickson

Biographic Data

ID86496
NAMEFrederick Erickson
GIVEN NAMESFrederick
FAMILY NAMEErickson
SIGNATUREERICKSON F
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Los Angeles
ORCID0000-0001-9285-4107
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS469
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX11

  • Reimaginando etnografias: O uso da videoetnografia na pesquisa em educação por Frederick Erickson e Carmen de Mattos

    Open AccessCarmen Lúcia Guimarães De Mattos, Frederick EricksonARTICLECadernos de Pesquisa2024

    O artigo é um ensaio teórico-metodológico que examina, a etnografia e a videoetnografia a partir das perspectivas de Frederick Erickson e Carmen de Mattos. São etnógrafos que realizam suas pesquisas em ambientes educacionais usando vídeo e microanálise. A fala de Erickson é incluída em primeiro lugar, com os objetivos de revisar aspectos fundamentais da pesquisa etnográfica em educação, descrever brevemente a história da etnografia, discutir a cr…

  • Waldo, blind inquirers, and an elephant: Locating learning in social movements

    Frederick EricksonARTICLEJournal of the Learning Sciences2021

    This special issue introduces a new focus for inquiry in the learning sciences. When research attention turns to learning that takes place within social movements, the scope and scale of inquiry expands dramatically. It becomes difficult to see learning, as we usually conceive it. The author’s commentary begins with two metaphors for difficulty in this new arena of research. A first metaphor is that of “Waldo,” a cartoon figure visually represent…

  • The Anthropology of Learning: A Continuing Story

    Open AccessFrederick Erickson, Manuel Luis EspinozaARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly2021Cited by: 2References: 21

  • Charles Goodwin (1943-2018)

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEAmerican Anthropologist2019Cited by: 1References: 9

  • Jeffrey Jay Schultz

    Open AccessFrederick Erickson, Susan Florio‐ruane et al.ARTICLEAnthropology News2018

  • The Organization of Informal Learning

    Open AccessB Rogoff, Maureen Callanan et al.ARTICLEReview of Research in Education2016

    Informal learning is often treated as simply an alternative to formal, didactic instruction. This chapter discusses how the organization of informal learning differs across distinct settings but with important commonalities distinguishing informal learning from formal learning: Informal learning is nondidactic, is embedded in meaningful activity, builds on the learner’s initiative or interest or choice (rather than resulting from external demands…

  • First, Do No Harm: A Comment

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly2016Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Rhythm in Discourse

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics2012

    Speech is uttered in real time. It is experienced as a succession of “now” moments, each “now” preceded by an immediately past moment. The rhythmic organization of that timing contributes both to our capacities as interlocutors to communicate referential meaning with one another and to organize conjoint actions together as speakers and auditors, actions such as turn exchange, and listening responses. Moreover, the rhythmic organization of utterin…

  • Definition and Analysis of Data from Videotape: Some Research Procedures and Their Rationales

    Frederick EricksonCHAPTERHandbook of Complementary Methods…2012

  • From speech as “situated” to speech as “situating”: Insights from John Gumperz on the practical conduct of talk as social action

    Frederick EricksonARTICLEText and Talk2011

    The article begins by reviewing the early research interests of John Gumperz and their further development across the course of his career. His doctoral research documented spoken language in an immigrant community. He then focused on bilingual speech communities and “code switching.” Later he became concerned with various aspects of style shifting within a language. Whether he was considering language switching, or dialect switching, or shifts i…

  • Uses of video in social research: A brief history

    Frederick EricksonARTICLEInternational Journal of Social…2011Cited by: 20References: 9

    This article discusses the origins of video‐based approaches to social research and their continuation up to the present moment. It begins by considering early studies employing silent cinema film and audio recording, followed by the unification of audio and visual recording in sound cinema film. Special emphasis is placed on the perspectives and methods initiated by the ‘Natural History of an Interview’ research group; the first systematic study…

  • Conducting Video Research in the Learning Sciences: Guidance on Selection, Analysis, Technology, and Ethics

    Sharon J Derry, Roy Pea et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Learning Sciences2010

    Focusing on expanding technical capabilities and new collaborative possibilities, we address 4 challenges for scientists who collect and use video records to conduct research in and on complex learning environments: (a) Selection: How can researchers be systematic in deciding which elements of a complex environment or extensive video corpus to select for study? (b) Analysis: What analytical frameworks and practices are appropriate for given resea…

  • General theorizing on language, society, and education: Basil Bernstein, Goldilocks, and/or the Energizer bunny

    Frederick EricksonARTICLEMultilingua2009Cited by: 2References: 1

    After briefly outlining Bernstein's personal and educational history, the paper goes on to review the scope of his work over the past 30 years, his theoretical contribution and his position among colleagues in the post-WWII era of British sociology. There follows a more detailed examination of the main tenets of his theory, pointing out that Bernstein's strategy was to present his ideas in the form of dichotomies, such as that between modes of so…

  • Learning From Our Differences: A Dialogue Across Perspectives on Quality in Education Research

    Open AccessPamela A Moss, Pamela Moss et al.ARTICLEEducational Researcher2009Cited by: 15References: 38

    The dialogue re-presented in this article is intended to foster mutual engagement—and opportunity for learning—across different perspectives on research within the education research community. Participants in the dialogue each addressed the following questions: (1) What are the touchstones by which you judge quality or rigor in education research (for a single study, a set of studies, or a “field” or community of researchers in dialogue)? What i…

  • Ethnographic Description

    Frederick EricksonCHAPTERSociolinguistics2005

  • Arts, Humanities, and Sciences in Educational Research and Social Engineering in Federal Education Policy

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLETeachers College Record The Voice…2004Cited by: 9

  • Demystifying Data Construction and Analysis

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly2004Cited by: 21References: 2

  • Culture and Human Development

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEHuman Development2002

    ‘Culture’ used to be thought of as a whole, internally consistent system of symbols and values held in common by members of bounded social groups, including whole societies. That view is changing among anthropologists currently. This article traces the intellectual history of those changes, across the earlier perspectives of functionalism and conflict theory, through recent perspectives on culture as residing in the practices of local communities…

  • Histories, Cultural Tools, and Interactional Co-Construction in the Zone of Proximal Development

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEHuman Development1999

  • On the evolution of qualitative approaches in educational research: From adam's task to eve's

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEThe Australian Educational…1996Cited by: 11References: 10

  • Taking stock/making change: Stories of collaboration in local school reform

    Frederick Erickson, Jolley Bruce ChristmanARTICLETheory Into Practice1996Cited by: 6References: 7

  • Why the Clinical Trial Doesn't Work as a Metaphor for Educational Research: A Response to Schrag

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEEducational Researcher1992Cited by: 7References: 3

  • Why the Clinical Trial Doesn't Work as a Metaphor for Educational Research: A Response to Schrag

    Frederick EricksonARTICLEEducational Researcher1992Cited by: 1

  • Topic control and person control: A thorny problem for foreign physicians in interaction with American patients

    Frederick Erickson, William RittenbergARTICLEDiscourse Processes1987Cited by: 8References: 3

    This paper examines the tension between physicians’ ability to control topics in interaction with patients and general American expectations that the asymmetry of power and status typical of such encounters be denied in favor of greater equality, manifested in shared topic control. Specifically, the paper focuses on the difficulties that foreign medical graduates, comfortable with power asymmetry, have in adapting their interactive style to Ameri…

  • Transformation and School Success: The Politics and Culture of Educational Achievement

    Open AccessFrederick EricksonARTICLEAnthropology & Education Quarterly1987Cited by: 114

    Various explanations for low school achievement of minority students include those of cultural differences between teacher and student and low motivation of students because of cynicism regarding their chances in the labor market. These explanations are compared, critiqued, and reconsidered in terms of critical social theory, more especially resistance theory. The article considers the perceived legitimacy of the school and its teachers and the d…