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This chapter reports on a three-way collaboration (the Japan International Cooperation Agency, the University of Pretoria, South Africa, and the Mpumalanga Department of Education). We aim to change classroom practices to “inquiry” approaches in science and mathematics, involving the learning of innovative/new kinds of knowledge, skills and attitudes and enhance opportunities for teachers to foster the kinds of learning and support required to change classroom practices in these two gateway subjects
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Jita, L.C., Maree, J.G., Ndlalane, T.C. (2008). Lesson Study (Jyugyo Kenkyu) from Japan to South Africa: A Science and Mathematics Intervention Program for Secondary School Teachers. In: Atweh, B., et al. Internationalisation and Globalisation in Mathematics and Science Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5908-7_25
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