Enriching a collaborative teacher inquiry discourse: Exploring teachers’ experiences of a theory-framed discourse in a Singapore case of lesson study

Educational Action Research

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 411-427

  Tan, Yuen Sze Michelle ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Collaborative teacher inquiry; Learning and pedagogical theory; Lesson study; Teacher professional development; Teacher research; Variation theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894098980     PISSN: 09650792     EISSN: 17475074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09650792.2014.880360     Document Type: Article

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