Overview
- Looks at how lesson study effectively works in different contexts and models of teacher learning Compiles research on and applications of lesson study, with contributions from USA, Canada, Australia, Ireland, Greece and Japan Connects and informs the professional community and advances the knowledge base
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Lesson study is a professional development process that teachers engage in to systematically examine their practice, with the goal of becoming more effective. Originating in Japan, lesson study has gained significant momentum in the mathematics education community in recent years.
As a process for professional development, lesson study became highly visible when it was proposed as a means of supporting the common practice of promoting better teaching by disseminating documents like standards, benchmarks and nationally validated curricula.
While the body of knowledge about lesson study is growing, it remains somewhat elusive and composed of discrete research endeavors. As a new research area there is no coherent knowledge base yet. This book will contribute to the field bringing the work of researchers and practitioners together to create a resource for extant work.
This book describes several aspects of Lesson Study, amongst others: it gives an historical overview of the concept, it addresses issues related to learning and teaching mathematics, it looks at the role of the teacher in the process. The last two sections of the book look at how lesson Study can be used with preservice mathematics teachers and at university mathematics methods teaching.
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Jumping into Lesson Study: Inservice Mathematics Teacher Education
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Emerging Issues from Lesson Study Approaches in Prospective Mathematics Teacher Education
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Challenges and Promises of Unchartered Water: Lesson Study and Institutes of Higher Education
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Seeing the Whole Iceberg: The Critical Role of Tasks, Inquiry Stance, and Teacher Learning in Lesson Study
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Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lesson Study Research and Practice in Mathematics Education
Book Subtitle: Learning Together
Editors: Lynn C. Hart, Alice S. Alston, Aki Murata
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9941-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-9940-2Published: 15 January 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-8993-7Published: 15 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-9941-9Published: 11 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 294
Topics: Mathematics Education, Teaching and Teacher Education