Research–practice partnerships through lesson study: learning through the three worlds of experiences

ABSTRACT

Research practice partnerships through lesson study promises to deliver educational improvements in an era of evidence-based school and curriculum reforms. But learning from these experiences is not trivial but rather challenging in a complex ecology of classroom and school environments. So, how do researchers and practitioners learn from their experiences during their engagement in an RPP through lesson study? In this commentary, I introduce the idea of noticing possibilities from the three worlds of experiences – self, others, theories and observations – as the key to learn from these partnerships, as evidenced in the papers in this special issue.

KEYWORDS:

• Research–practice partnerships
• lesson study
• learning from experience
• noticing

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Ban Heng Choy

Ban Heng Choy is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His current research projects are centered on teacher noticing, mathematics teacher professional learning, lesson study, and STEM education.