ABSTRACT
Frederick Erickson is George F. Kneller Professor of Anthropology of Education at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also is a participant in that university’s interdisciplinary Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture. A specialist in the use of video analysis in interactional sociolinguistics, microethnography, and discourse analysis, his research in education has focused especially on the study of social interaction as a learning environment. He also does basic research on the nature of social interaction, focusing especially on timing and rhythm in the social coordination of interaction, relationships of mutual influence between listening and speaking, and the signaling of multiple social identities in talk. His publications include (with Jeffrey J. Shultz) The Counselor as Gatekeeper: Social Interaction in Interviews (Academic Press, 1982) and Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life (Polity Press, 2004) and numerous articles and chapters, recently including “Some notes on the musicality of speech” (2003) and “Culture in society and in educational practices” (2004). He has also written extensively on qualitative research methods in education. Erickson is a former president of the Council on Anthropology and Education of the American Anthropological Association and editor of that society’s journal Anthropology and Education Quarterly, and is a former Vice President for Division G (Social Context of Education) of the American Educational Research Association. In 1998–1999 he was a Spencer Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA., and in 2000 he was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Education.
