Lesson Study in Mathematics: Three Cases from Singapore
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- Title
- Lesson Study in Mathematics: Three Cases from Singapore
- Abstract/Description
- This chapter reports mainly the mathematics research lessons component of a two-year intervention project (2006 and 2007) funded by the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice (CRPP). The project team worked closely with a government school to implement Lesson Study as a teacher-directed form of instructional improvement. The chapter introduces the conceptual framework of cultural-historic activity theory and Wenger's community of practice and how they guide our intervention. It then examines the continuous improvement processes and teacher learning through three cases of mathematics research lessons conducted in three Lesson Study cycles. The topics cover long division, area and perimeter, and equivalent fractions in Primary 3 and 4. As the cases highlight, Lesson Study has become not only a powerful tool to bring together knowledge from diverse communities but also a rich site for the induction and mentoring of novice teachers. Researchers' learning from the implementation is equally powerful.
- Date
- In publication
- Mathematics Education
- Series
- Series on Mathematics Education
- Volume
- 2
- Pages
- 104-129
- Publisher
- WORLD SCIENTIFIC
- Resource type
- en Research/Scholarly Media
- Resource status/form
- en Published Text
- Scholarship genre
- en Empirical
- Keywords
- activity theory
- community of practice
- instructional improvement
- lesson study
- mathematics research lessons
- mentoring of novice teachers
- Open access/full-text available
- en No
- Peer reviewed
- en No
- ISBN
- 978-981-283-375-4
- Submitter’s note
- Fang, Y., Lee, C. K.-E., & Sharifah Thalha, B. S. H. (2009). Lesson Study in Mathematics: Three Cases from Singapore. In Mathematics Education: Vol. Volume 2 (pp. 104–129). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789812833761_0005
- Series number
- Volume 2
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