Characterizing mathematics teaching research specialists’ mentoring in the context of Chinese lesson study

ZDM - Mathematics Education

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 441-454

  Gu, Feishi ^a   Gu, Lingyuan ^b  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Institute of Complex Adaptive System   (China)

Author keywords

Lesson study; Mentoring; Teacher learning; Teaching research system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976389240     PISSN: 18639690     EISSN: 18639704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11858-016-0756-1     Document Type: Article

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