Atsushi Tsukui is senior researcher at International Development Center of Japan, a consulting firm for social development projects in developing countries. His research focuses on teacher professional development in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Myanmar. He develops and conducts a series of teacher training by video viewing. His earliest work anthropologically revealed the roles of facilitators for community education in Northern mountainous regions in Vietnam. In subsequent research he conducted in-depth fieldwork of teacher’s lived experiences in Vietnamese schools to investigate teacher value/identity. He is now engaging in his doctoral thesis on Vietnamese teachers’ values reflected in their classroom observation. Masatsugu Murase is the founder and director of Azabu Institute of Education, an independent consulting firm in Tokyo, Japan. After gaining experience as a teacher educator at Shinshu University, he became an independent consultant for school education. He has visited numerous schools in Japan and other Asian countries to assist in their school reform efforts. In addition to consulting, he has authored or co-authored several papers and books on diverse subjects, such as learning science, lesson study, professional development, and school reform. He is currently working as part of a JICA project for curriculum development in Myanmar.

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• Notes on contributorsList of tables and figuresPrefacePart I Theory of SLCChapter 1 Spread and Progress of School as Learning Community in Asia (Manabu Sato)Chapter 2 History and Theory of School as Learning Community (Masatsugu Murase)Part II Practice of SLCChapter 3 School-Wide Lesson Study Across Subject Areas: Creating School-Based Professional Learning Communities in Japanese Secondary Schools (Yoshiko Kitada)Chapter 4 School Reform Practices through Building Learning Community in Korea: Toward Restructuring the Image of Learning (Jiwon Shin and Woo-jung Son)Chapter 5 Late Start and Rapid Spread: The Challenge of School as Learning Community in Taiwan (Yulun Huang)Chapter 6 Harbinger of Lesson Study for Learning Community in Indonesia (Tatang Suratno, Ibrohim, Ridwan Joharmawan, Husnul Chotimah and Naomi Takasawa)Chapter 7 What Makes a Teacher ‘Act’: Changing the Micro-politics of Classroom Observation through Lesson Study in Vietnam (Atsushi Tsukui)Index

Atsushi Tsukui is senior researcher at International Development Center of Japan, a consulting firm for social development projects in developing countries. His research focuses on teacher professional development in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Myanmar. He develops and conducts a series of teacher training by video viewing. His earliest work anthropologically revealed the roles of facilitators for community education in Northern mountainous regions in Vietnam. In subsequent research he conducted in-depth fieldwork of teacher’s lived experiences in Vietnamese schools to investigate teacher value/identity. He is now engaging in his doctoral thesis on Vietnamese teachers’ values reflected in their classroom observation. Masatsugu Murase is the founder and director of Azabu Institute of Education, an independent consulting firm in Tokyo, Japan. After gaining experience as a teacher educator at Shinshu University, he became an independent consultant for school education. He has visited numerous schools in Japan and other Asian countries to assist in their school reform efforts. In addition to consulting, he has authored or co-authored several papers and books on diverse subjects, such as learning science, lesson study, professional development, and school reform. He is currently working as part of a JICA project for curriculum development in Myanmar.

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• Notes on contributorsList of tables and figuresPrefacePart I Theory of SLCChapter 1 Spread and Progress of School as Learning Community in Asia (Manabu Sato)Chapter 2 History and Theory of School as Learning Community (Masatsugu Murase)Part II Practice of SLCChapter 3 School-Wide Lesson Study Across Subject Areas: Creating School-Based Professional Learning Communities in Japanese Secondary Schools (Yoshiko Kitada)Chapter 4 School Reform Practices through Building Learning Community in Korea: Toward Restructuring the Image of Learning (Jiwon Shin and Woo-jung Son)Chapter 5 Late Start and Rapid Spread: The Challenge of School as Learning Community in Taiwan (Yulun Huang)Chapter 6 Harbinger of Lesson Study for Learning Community in Indonesia (Tatang Suratno, Ibrohim, Ridwan Joharmawan, Husnul Chotimah and Naomi Takasawa)Chapter 7 What Makes a Teacher ‘Act’: Changing the Micro-politics of Classroom Observation through Lesson Study in Vietnam (Atsushi Tsukui)Index

Atsushi Tsukui is senior researcher at International Development Center of Japan, a consulting firm for social development projects in developing countries. His research focuses on teacher professional development in Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Myanmar. He develops and conducts a series of teacher training by video viewing. His earliest work anthropologically revealed the roles of facilitators for community education in Northern mountainous regions in Vietnam. In subsequent research he conducted in-depth fieldwork of teacher’s lived experiences in Vietnamese schools to investigate teacher value/identity. He is now engaging in his doctoral thesis on Vietnamese teachers’ values reflected in their classroom observation. Masatsugu Murase is the founder and director of Azabu Institute of Education, an independent consulting firm in Tokyo, Japan. After gaining experience as a teacher educator at Shinshu University, he became an independent consultant for school education. He has visited numerous schools in Japan and other Asian countries to assist in their school reform efforts. In addition to consulting, he has authored or co-authored several papers and books on diverse subjects, such as learning science, lesson study, professional development, and school reform. He is currently working as part of a JICA project for curriculum development in Myanmar.

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• Notes on contributorsList of tables and figuresPrefacePart I Theory of SLCChapter 1 Spread and Progress of School as Learning Community in Asia (Manabu Sato)Chapter 2 History and Theory of School as Learning Community (Masatsugu Murase)Part II Practice of SLCChapter 3 School-Wide Lesson Study Across Subject Areas: Creating School-Based Professional Learning Communities in Japanese Secondary Schools (Yoshiko Kitada)Chapter 4 School Reform Practices through Building Learning Community in Korea: Toward Restructuring the Image of Learning (Jiwon Shin and Woo-jung Son)Chapter 5 Late Start and Rapid Spread: The Challenge of School as Learning Community in Taiwan (Yulun Huang)Chapter 6 Harbinger of Lesson Study for Learning Community in Indonesia (Tatang Suratno, Ibrohim, Ridwan Joharmawan, Husnul Chotimah and Naomi Takasawa)Chapter 7 What Makes a Teacher ‘Act’: Changing the Micro-politics of Classroom Observation through Lesson Study in Vietnam (Atsushi Tsukui)Index