Teacher learning in Lesson Study: What interaction-level discourse analysis revealed about how teachers utilised imagination, tacit knowledge of teaching and fresh evidence of pupils learning, to develop practice knowledge and so enhance their pupils' learning

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 34, Issue , 2013, Pages 107-121

  Dudley, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lesson Study; Reflective practice; Tacit knowledge; Teacher discourse; Teacher learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877330750     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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