Taking stock of Lesson Study as a platform for teacher development in Singapore

Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 353-365

  Lim, Christina ^a   Lee, Christine ^a   Saito, Eisuke ^a   Haron, Sharifa Syed ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

constraints; implementation; Lesson Study; support; teacher professional development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862954367     PISSN: 1359866X     EISSN: 14692945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1359866X.2011.614683     Document Type: Article

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