Lesson Study: The Challenges of International Implementation

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This working group roundtable brings together examples of international LS implementation and research, illustrates challenges of cross-cultural implementation, and examines sustainability in non-Japanese contexts. Three presenters will showcase their work and frame their dilemma’s, concerns, and problems when ‘translating’ Japanese LS into a different culture and education system. Is it lost in translation or do new, innovative and exciting approaches stem out of the adoption and adaptation process? The chair of this working group roundtable is a seasoned LS-researcher and practitioner and has worked in Japan and in the United States on Japanese LS and adaptation of LS cross culturally and will entice the presenters and the audience to a synergistic discussion.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Lesson Study

Chair

• Sarah Seleznyov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Papers

• International Policy Borrowing and the Case of Japanese Lesson Study - Sarah Seleznyov, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Sui Lin Goei, Windesheim University of Applied Sciences

• Cultural and Structural Challenges to the Implementation of Lesson Study in Spain - Maria Neus Alvarez

• Implementing Lesson Study in Lausanne, Switzerland: What Common and What Particular Transformations for What Effects? - Stéphane Clivaz, Lausanne University of Teacher Education, Switzerland

Discussant

• Aki Murata, University of California - Berkeley