International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies: Volume 11 Issue 4

Guiding educational innovation to promote children's non-cognitive abilities to succeed: implementation of the Sesame Street curriculum in Japan

Noriyuki Inoue, Daniel Light

What does it take to successfully implement new educational innovation in schools, and what roles does lesson study play there? In order to answer this question, this study…

Lesson study on two continents: contextual differences reflected in teachers’ pedagogy, affect and processes

Vicki Stewart Collet, Nagisa Nakawa

The purpose of this study was to better understand how lesson study (LS) impacts the pedagogy and attitudes of teachers in varied sociocultural contexts. The authors investigated…

Factors that facilitate and obstruct the dissemination of physical education lesson study in Peru

Tomoya Shiraishi, Kazuhiko Saito, Alexander Kuga, Yoshimi Yamahira

This study examined the factors that facilitated and obstructed the dissemination of a physical education lesson study (PELS) project in Peru, conducted in collaboration with…

Changes in qualities and abilities of Japanese teachers through participation in Global Lesson Study on mathematics

Takeshi Sakai, Hideyuki Akai, Hiroki Ishizaka, Kazuyuki Tamura, Yew-Jin Lee, Ban Heng Choy, Hiroaki Ozawa

The authors aim to determine the effects of Global Lesson Study (GLS) – a two-year, one-cycle program defined as “international cooperative lesson study through international…

The study of students' discussion process in a teacher-developed problem-solving learning design: Transcript-based lesson analysis of a social studies lesson

Shiho Nozaki

This study aims to clarify the process of students' discussion in a problem-solving lesson developed autonomously by a teacher. It is expected to contribute to the accumulating…

Connecting EFL curriculum reforms with teacher and student learning: insights from two lesson studies

Yumei Zhang, Shaoqian Luo

Combining empirical insights from two lesson studies (LSs), this research aims to investigate EnEFL (English as a foreign language) teachers’ development in understanding and…

Networking Hybridizations within the Semiosphere: a research trajectory for the Cultural Transposition of the Chinese Lesson Study within a Western context

Ferdinando Arzarello, Silvia Funghi, Carola Manolino, Alessandro Ramploud, Maria Giuseppina Bartolini Bussi

The aim of this paper is to describe teachers’ professional development in Lesson Study (LS) as processes situated in Semiosphere and generated by the unevenness due to different…