Digital Technologies, Online Learning and Lesson and Learning Studies

The first WALS webinar of 2021 will focus on ‘Digital Technologies, Online Learning and Lesson and Learning Studies’ and will feature authors from three of the eight papers included in the IJLLS special issue which has the same focus. The Q and A sessions was chaired and questions was moderated by the co-editors of the special issue, Nina Helgevold from the University…

Methods and Methodological Challenges of PhD students and Young Researchers in Lesson/Learning Study Research

The aim of the webinar is to discuss methods and methodological challenges in Lesson/Learning Study Research, from the perspectives of PhD students and Young Researchers. This webinar was chaired by Shirley Tan (Nagoya University) and featured three presentations by Dennis Mulligan (University of Lincoln), Mary Renton (University of Leicester) and Michiel Van Harskamp (Utrecht University). The challenges and dilemmas highlighted in the presentations will be discussed…

WALS and The Cambridge Leadership for Learning Network Joint Event

We are pleased to announce a webinar in which Professor John Elliott will talk about his life as a researcher and reformer, and then introduce us to eight ‘good reads’ – educational works that have influenced his work and thinking. John is Emeritus Professor of Education and Lifelong Learning at the Centre for Action Research in Education at the University…

Lesson Study: A Knowledge Management Perspective

The webinar was shared by Dr. Eric Cheng and Professor Tetsuo Kuramoto. They will articulate the strategies to facilitate and sustain Lesson Study for teachers’ knowledge creation from the knowledge management perspective. Knowledge management in school education focuses on leveraging pedagogical knowledge as resources for instructional design and curriculum implementation. Lesson Study refers to a synergistic process of knowledge creation in which teachers…

Variation Theory for Better Teaching and Learning in Learning Study

The webinar will be chaired by Dr. Yuefeng Zhang, Assistant Professor of The Education University of Hong Kong, a Council member of The World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS). She has conducted training of Learning Study and Variation Theory in Hong Kong, Mainland China, Sweden, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Austria, Italy, Kazakhstan since 2006. This webinar has lined up…

Crafting Sustainable Pedagogies for Teaching and Learning

This webinar was chaired by Dr. Sui Lin Goei, Professor Inclusive Learning Environments at Windesheim University and Assistant Professor at LEARN! Research Institute at VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and was presented by Tijmen Schipper MSc, also of Windesheim University, Fenna Wolthuis MSc of Groningen University, and Susanne Jansen MSc of Utrecht University, all in the Netherlands. Prof Stéphane Clivaz of…

Making Student Thinking Visible

This webinar was Chaired by Prof Catherine Lewis, Research Professor at the Department of Education at Mills College Oakland, California and presented by Dr Shelley Friedkin, also of Mills College and Assistant Professor Sharon Dotger of Syracuse University. This webinar focused on two tools useful for making student thinking visible: journals (notebooks) and board writing (bansho). The presenters shared a…