Area of Discipline / Professional Expertise
- Social studies instruction
- Teacher preparation and professional development
- Teacher quality and development
Research
- Teacher thinking and collaborative relationships during teacher preparation and induction into the teaching profession.
- Teacher education practices and their implications for schools of education, public education, teachers, and society.
- Preparation, belief systems, commitments, and practices of social studies educators and how those influence citizenship development and social responsibility of elementary school students.
- Implementation and integration of the social studies within the elementary curriculum.
Education
- Ph.D., Curriculum and Instruction, Arizona State University, 1996
- M.A., Teaching and Learning, Brigham Young University, 1987
- B.A., Elementary Education, Brigham Young University, 1978
Affiliations
- Elementary Education - Primary
Selected Publications
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"Questioning What We Know About Teacher Education", Imagining a Renaissance in Teacher Education, Stefinee Pinnegar and Lynnette B. Erickson, Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland, Cheryl J. Craig and Louise F. Deretchin, January, 2008
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"Teaching with a Peer: A Comparison of Two Models of Student Teaching (Reprint from article published in 2003)", Counter narratives: Studies of Teacher Education and Becoming and Being and Teacher., Robert V. Bullough, Jr., with Janet R. Young, James R. Birrell, D. Cecil Clark, M. Winston Egan, Lynnette B. Erickson, Marti Frankovitch, Joanne Brunetti, and Myra Welling., State University of New York Press, Albany, January, 2008
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"Novice teacher growth and personal models of mentoring: Choosing compassion over inquiry.", Mentoring and Tutoring, Young, J. R., Bullough, R. V., Jr., Draper, R. J., Smith, L., & ERICKSON, L. B., Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 169-188, August, 2005
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"Becoming Global Citizens: Disadvantaged Students Reaach Out to Kids in Hurricane-Ravaged Island", Social Education, LYNNETTE B. ERICKSON, Sharon Black, and Daniel Seegmiller, Volume 69, Issue 1, Pages 28-32, January, 2005
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"Life on the borderlands: Action research and clinical teacher education faculty.", Educational Action Research, Bullough, R. V., Jr., Draper, R. J., ERICKSON, L., Smith, L., & Young, J., Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 433-454, 2004
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"Teaching with a peer: A comparison of two models of student teaching.", Teaching and Teacher Education, R.V. Bullough, J. Young, J.R. Birrell, D.C. Clark, M.W. Egan, M., ERICKSON, L., Frankovich, Volume 18, Pages 57-73, August, 2003
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"Issues-centered instruction in the social studies classroom: Sweeny & Parsons controversial social studies issues model.", Social Studies Journal, G.W. Chilcoat, J.A. Ligon, Volume 32, Pages 1-13, February, 2003
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"Rethinking field experience: Partnership teaching vs. single-placement teaching", Journal of Teacher Education, R. Bullough, J. Young, J., ERICKSON, L., Birrell, D. Clark, W. Egan, Issue 53, Pages 68-80, January, 2002
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"In the roar of the waves", R.W.T.: The Magazine for Reading, Writing, Thinking, S. Black, Issue 5, Pages 36-37, 2001
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"What I did last summer--nothing", R.W.T.: The Magazine for Reading, Writing, Thinking, S. Black, Issue 1, Pages 14-16, 2000
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"Paradise unrealized: Teacher educators and the costs and benefits of school/university partnerships", Journal of Teacher Education, R. Bullough, Jr., J. Birrell, J. Young, D. Clark, R. Earle, et al., Issue 50, Pages 381-390, 1999
Experience
Teaching
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Clinical Faculty Associate, Department of Teacher Education, Brigham Young University, 1987-1991
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Teacher, 3rd Grade, Gilbert Public Schools, Gilbert, Arizona, 1981-1986
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Teacher, 3rd Grade, Nebo School District, Spanish Fork, Utah, 1978-1981
Professional
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Associate Professor, Department of Teacher Education, Brigham Young University, 2002
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Associate Department Chair, Department of Teacher Education, Brigham Young University, 1998-2006
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Assistant Professor, Brigham Young University, 1996-2002
Lynnette
B.
Erickson
Associate Professor
Teacher Education, Department of
Education, David O. McKay School of
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Office:
201-X MCKB
Phone:
801-422-4809
Email:
lynnette_erickson@byu.edu
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