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Organizational Learning of Lesson Study in Japan: Sustainability of Schools as Learning Communities book cover

1st Edition

Organizational Learning of Lesson Study in Japan Sustainability of Schools as Learning Communities

By Yuta Suzuki Copyright 2026
168 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book examines the sustainability of school reform for Schools as Learning Communities (SLC), from the theoretical perspective of organizational learning of lesson study. Starting with a Japanese pilot school in 1998 and continuing on a global scale over the past quarter-century, school reform for SLC has been one of the most influential styles of school reform in modern times. Suzuki... Read more

Table of Contents

About the Author

Series Editors' Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgements

1.     Introduction: Organizational Learning of Lesson Study: Towards Sustainability of School Reform for Schools as Learning Communities (SLC)

Part I

2.     "Toddling" Hamanogo Elementary School (HGE)

3.     Formation of Narrative Records of Lesson Study

4.     Development of Narrative Records of Lesson Study

Part Ⅱ

5.     Double-Loop Learning to Question the Idols

6.     "Low-Flying" Hamanogo Elementary School (HGE)

Part Ⅲ

7.     Formation of Reflective Practices

8.     Development of Reflective Practices

9.     "Creating, Opening, and Narrating Lessons": "Second Golden Age" of Hamanogo Elementary School (HGE)

10.   Conclusion: Characteristic Organizational Learning of Lesson Study in School Reform for Schools as Learning Communities (SLC)

Bibliography

Index

 

Biography

Yuta Suzuki is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Liberal Arts, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan.

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