International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies: Volume 2 Issue 3

The role of lesson study in facilitating curriculum reforms

Christine Kim-Eng Lee, Lo Mun Ling

Much has been written about the failure of curriculum reforms to bring about pedagogical transformation in classrooms. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue…

Facilitating curriculum reforms through lesson study

Catherine Lewis, Akihiko Takahashi

The purpose of this paper is to briefly describe the role of lesson study in implementation of national curriculum reforms in Japan, identifying key features that may be of…

Chinese teachers’ reconstruction of the curriculum reform through lesson study

Xiangming Chen, Fan Yang

The purpose of this paper is to reveal how the meanings of the current national curriculum reform in China changed in its transmission from the outside authoritative mandate to…

A US lesson study network to spread teaching through problem solving

Akihiko Takahashi, Catherine Lewis, Rebecca Perry

The purpose of this paper is to describe the design and initial implementation of a lesson study network in the US intended to support implementation of the Common Core State…

Innovating the Singapore English Language curriculum through lesson study

Lydia Tan-Chia, Yanping Fang, Pow Chew Ang

The purpose of this paper is to report on an exploratory study, Project En-ELT (enhancing English language learning and teaching), which used lesson study to mediate curriculum…

Teaching democracy – a complex object of learning

Mona Holmqvist Olander, Birte Sandberg

– The purpose of this paper is to describe a learning study with a complex object of learning – democracy.

Curriculum, Pedagogy and Educational Research. The Work of Lawrence Stenhouse

Lo Mun Ling

Lesson Study Step by Step: How Teacher Learning Communities Improve Instruction

Christina Lim-Ratnam