- Title
- From lesson study to learning study: side-by-side professional learning in the classroom
- Creator
- Groundwater-Smith, Susan; Mockler, Nicole
- Relation
- Connecting Inquiry and Professional Learning in Education: International Perspectives and Practical Solutions p. 166-178
- Relation
- http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415478120
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- This chapter explores the richness and depth of professional learning for both academics and classroom practitioners when they work alongside each other in conditions of mutual trust and respect. However, it is not sanguine regarding the challenges and difficulties. Learning to engage in professional trust is increasingly difficult as different players with different degrees of agency and differing professional agenda interact. Exposing uncertainties and challenging practice is risky business. The chapter draws upon a project undertaken in Australia which originally grew from concepts surrounding Lesson Study but which became transformed into what we term 'Learning Study' with a much broader and more liberatory agenda. Such a transformation not only requires challenges to orthodoxies surrounding the methodology, but also to the adoption of the methodology by employing authorities who see it as a means of developing and delivering 'best practice', a phrase we both eschew.
- Subject
- lesson study; learning study; professional learning; best practice
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923520
- Identifier
- uon:9744
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780415478137
- Language
- eng
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