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Offering a rich, critical investigation of how technology can be used to strengthen and promote lesson study in both virtual and hybrid environments, this edited book presents insights into the numerous challenges as well as opportunities for supporting teachers' and teacher educators' professional learning in such a novel setting.
Providing an international perspective, research in this book highlights on the one hand the necessity of exploring how the known theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches for researching on lesson study and effective characteristics of conducting lesson study can be adapted to the new environments. On the other hand, further analysis reveals the benefits of using various advanced technologies in lesson study, the new practice of professional development of teachers and teacher educators, and also documents related issues of conducting lesson study in such complex contexts. The chapters focus on online cross-cultural lesson study; the key aspects of conducting online lesson study and the effectiveness of it. Features of facilitation and the development of facilitators for online lesson study are explored, alongside the ways in which online lesson study can help address various problems of practice such as implementing equitable teaching, facilitating student interaction in virtual environments, and migration to remote teaching in STEM.
This resourceful text provides needed support to both researchers and practitioners, from primary to higher education, with special attention to both teacher and student learning.
List of contents
1. Teacher professional learning through hybrid lesson study 2. Potential of online experience of Lesson Study: Learning from the IMPULS efforts to provide research lesson observation online 3. Hybrid cross-cultural lesson study impacts teacher learning 4. What can online lesson study offer? Findings from an Australian – Japanese collaboration 5. An intercultural blended lesson study for teaching an in-service teacher education course: Collaboration between Singapore and Finland teacher educators 6. Analysing and facilitating collaboration in online lesson study 7. Online lesson study: Solving authentic problems of practice 8. Examining teacher professional learning: Transitions to online lesson study in STEM university contexts 9. Developing teacher educators’ researcherly disposition through lesson study in a virtual environment 10. Teachers’ awareness of classroom interactions in the hybrid distance education through Lesson Study 11. Brokering at the boundaries: A critical reflection on leading online lesson study 12. Changes in high school distance education science teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge during remote lesson study 13. Learning opportunities and problematic issues provided by online lesson study during a pandemic: Insights from WALS 2020 and 2021 14. Lesson study in a time of change: Working towards a new pedagogy in the digital age 15. Conclusion 16. Afterword: What to learn from and adopt, and what not-to-forget in the post pandemic world of lesson study and online professional learning
About the author
Rongjin Huang is a Professor of Mathematics Education at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
Nina Helgevold is a Professor of Pedagogy in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Stavanger, Norway.
Jean Lang is currently completing a PhD in educational research at the University of Exeter, following a long career as an educator. She is also a member of the Executive Committee of WALS and was previously its Honorary General Secretary.
Heng Jiang is an Associate Professor in Policy, Curriculum, and Leadership at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Summary
Offering a rich, critical investigation of how technology can be used to strengthen and promote lesson study in both virtual and hybrid environments, this edited book presents insights into the numerous challenges as well as opportunities for supporting teachers’ and teacher educators’ professional learning in such a novel setting.
