Teacher Professional Learning through Lesson Study in Virtual and Hybrid Environments
Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
Jean Lang editor Heng Jiang editor Rongjin Huang editor Nina Helgevold editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:18th Aug '23
£135.00
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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.
The chapters in this book provide informative descriptions of a wide range of lesson studies undertaken during COVID-19 and so in a context of rapidly developing digital and remote connections across participants and cultures. Readers interested in the research and practice of lesson study will find rich and critical reflection on how lesson study programs were adapted, new programs set up, the possibilities these opened up, and in some instances their affordances and constraints relative to face-to-face lesson study. The book is a welcome addition to the extensive literature on cross cultural lesson study, with inspiration and professional wisdom towards innovation and hybridization in a new digital era.
Jill Alder,Professor of Mathematics Education, School of Education, at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Past President, International Commission on Mathematical Instruction
Huang, Helgevold, Lang, Jiang and the contributing authors move our field forward from conceptualizing online/hybrid lesson study to highlighting and researching the innovative practices that show promise for LS. The book is helpful for practitioners who want to innovate LS to include digital technology that may afford opportunities for better access and equity for different stakeholders (including, students, teachers, math leaders, and LS facilitators) as well as researchers who want to consider theories and research methodology to propel this research forward. Scaling up and sustaining LS has always been a challenge and the promise of online/hybrid LS provides LS advocates with a lot of lessons learned from the contribution of the many leading LS researchers around the world.
Jennifer Suh, Professor of Mathematics Education, Director, Center for Outreach for Mathematics Professional learning/Educational Technology George Mason University, USA.
Board of Directors of National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, USA
ISBN: 9781032260303
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 320g
280 pages