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Conceptualizing Lesson Study from International Literature

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Lesson Study developed in Japan as a form of collaborative teacher training, and in resistance to restrictions on teacher professional autonomy as the government imposed a bureaucratically controlled national curriculum. This chapter summarizes the development of, and critical literature on, Lesson Study. It also identifies the gap between theory and practice in school development from the perspective of knowledge management, with particular reference to issues in transplanting Lesson Study to other countries.

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Cheng, E.C.K. (2019). Conceptualizing Lesson Study from International Literature. In: Successful Transposition of Lesson Study. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2472-7_1

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