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Janet R Young


Area of Discipline / Professional Expertise
  • Literacy
  • Teacher preparation and professional development
Research
  • Study of teacher thinking and collaborative relationships during teacher preparation and induction into the teaching professeion.
  • Inquiry into teacher education practices and their implications for schools of education, public education, teachers, and society
  • Study of the development of preservice teachers as literacy teachers in the primary grades, especially influences on their choices of best practice and application of research to practice.
  • Exploration of children''s developing understanding of, their learning about, and their use of literacy, within different contexts, classroom cultures, and environments.
Education
  • Ph.D., Instructional Leadership & Academic Curriculum, Reading, University of Oklahoma, 1996
  • M.A., Elementary Education, Teaching and Learning, Brigham Young University, 1989
  • B.S., Communicative Habilitation, Elementary Education, Brigham Young University, 1974
Affiliations
  • Elementary Education - Primary
Selected Publications
  • "Truth One: Literacy Teacher Preparation is Based on Research", JANET R. YOUNG, Roni Jo Draper, Volume Literacy Teacher Preparation: Ten Truths Teacher Educators Need to Know, International Reading Association, Newark, DE, Susan D. Lenski, Dana L. Grisham, & Linda Wold, January, 2006 
  • "Novice Teacher Growth and Personal Models of Mentoring: Choosing Compassion Over Inquiry", Mentoring & Tutoring, JANET R. YOUNG, Robert V. Bullough, Jr., Roni Jo Draper, Leigh K. Smith, Lynnette B. Erickson, Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 163-203, August, 2005 
  • "Participatory action research and the quest for teacher educator community solidarity", Teacher Development, Bullough, R. V., Jr., Draper, R. J., Smih, L. K., YOUNG, J., Sabey, B., & Brooks, S., Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 79-95, January, 2005 
  • "Novice teacher growth and personal models of mentoring: Choosing compassion over inquiry", Mentoring & Tutoring, JANET R. YOUNG, Robert V. Bullough, Jr., Roni Jo Draper, Leigh K. Smith, Lynnette B. Erickson, 2005 
  • "Life of the borderlands: Action research and clinical teacher education faculty", Educational Action Research, Bullough, Robert V., Jr., Draper, Roni Jo, Erickson, Lynnette, Smith, Leigh, YOUNG, JANET, Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages 433-453, July, 2004  View Abstract
  • "One-year teaching internships and the dimensions of beginning teacher development", Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, Robert V. Bullough, Jr., JANET YOUNG, Roni Jo Draper, Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 365-394, August, 2004  View Abstract
  • "Face to face with children", Journal of Curriculum Studies, Paul F. Cook, JANET R. YOUNG, Volume 36, Issue 3, Pages 341-360, May, 2004  View Abstract
  • "Teaching with a peer: A comparison of two models of student teaching", Teaching & Teacher Education, Robert V. Bullough, Jr., JANET YOUNG, James R. Birrell, D. Cecil Clark, M. Winston Egan, L.ynnette Erickson, Volume 19, Pages 57-73, 2003 
  • "The first language perspective--in the Lucia Villarreal case: A video ethnography of literacy practices in a bilingual classsroom", JANET YOUNG, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, S. Pinnegar, A. Teemant, C. Harris, A. Sirota, January, 2003 
  • "Reading environmental print: What is the role of concepts about print in discriminating young readers' responses?", Reading Psychology, D. Ray Reutzel, Parker C. Fawson, JANET R. YOUNG, Timothy G. Morrison, Brad Wilcox, Volume 24, Issue 2, Pages 123-162, 2003 
  • "Learning to teach as an intern: The emotions and the self.", Teacher Development, R. Bullough, Jr., Issue 6, Pages 417-431, 2002 
  • "The first language perspective", YOUNG, JANET R., Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, S. Pinnegar, A Teemant, S. Tyra, October, 2002  View Abstract
  • "Rethinking field experience: Partnership teaching vs. Single-placement teaching.", Journal of Teacher Education, Robert V. Bullough Jr., JANET YOUNG, Lynnette Erickson, James R. Birrell, Cecil D. Clark, M. Winston Egan, Christy Berrie, Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 68-80, 2002 
  • "Using mediated learning to improve the level of reflection of preservice teachers.", http://www.umanitoba.ca/unevoc/conference/conf_papers.html, Paul F. Cook, Nancy Evensen, 2001 
  • "Paradise unrealized: Teacher educators and the costs and benefits of school/university partnerships.", Journal of Teacher Education, Robert V. Bullough Jr., James R. Birrell, Cecil D. Clark, Lynnette Erickson, Rodney S. Earle, Joy S. Campbell, Volume 50, Pages 381-390, 1999 
Experience

Professional
  • Associate Professor, Teacher Edudation, Brigham Young University, 2006
  • Assistant Professor, Teacher Education, Brigham Young University, 1996-2006


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