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Lesson Study as Pedagogic Transfer

A Sociological Analysis

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Authors:
  1. Kanako N. Kusanagi

    1. Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Demonstrates the implementation of lesson study in foreign countries
  • Provides ethnographic accounts of teachers' daily activities and their classroom practice
  • Introduces a new sociological approach in teachers’ professional development

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Lesson Study and Pedagogic Transfer

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 3-17

    3. Historical Development of Lesson Study in Japan

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 19-34

    4. Importing and Exporting Lesson Study

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 35-64

  3. Ethnography of Lesson Study in a Javanese Junior High School

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Teacher Professional Development in Indonesia: Issues and Challenges

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 67-80

    3. The Javanese Teacher Community and Their Coping Strategies

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 81-105

    4. Teachers’ Pedagogies, Strategies, and Authority

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 107-131

    5. Enactment of Lesson Study as a Bureaucratic Project

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 133-148

  4. Sociological Understanding of Pedagogic Transfer

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      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Recontextualization of Lesson Study

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 151-168

    3. Conclusion

      • Kanako N. Kusanagi
      Pages 169-178
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About this book

This book examines education transfer, specifically focusing on pedagogic transfer, and analyzes what happens when lesson study is introduced into foreign contextual settings. Lesson study, a professional development approach that originated in Japan 150 years ago, has been widely considered one of the best practices for collaborative professional development. There is an underlying assumption behind education transfer that when “best practice” is transferred to another country, it will generate a similar effect and improve schooling quality. Since pedagogic practice is socially constructed, the best practice in one setting may not be meaningful in another contextual setting. 


This book makes a unique contribution to the field of comparative education by offering a sociological examination of why pedagogic transfer often fails to bring expected benefits. It is comprised of three parts. Part I, ”Pedagogic Transfer and Lesson study,” provides contextualized analysis of lesson study in Japan and abroad and presents how the meaning of practice is always reinterpreted against the local educational context. 


Part II presents a sociological analysis of Indonesian teachers’ practice based on ethnographic fieldwork. It conceptually analyses the nature of the teacher community and their practice and is presented as “teacher strategies.” The concept showed that teacher culture and practice are not fixed but constantly negotiated within the institutional setting.


Part III, “Sociological Understanding of Pedagogic Transfer,” builds on the analyses in Part I and II and provides a theoretical understanding of the issue of pedagogic transfer. Professional responsibilities of teachers, collegiality, and teaching expertise in Japan and Indonesia are compared to understand how the meaning of lesson study was reconstructed in the Indonesian setting. In conclusion, recommendations for an alternative approach to professional development are offered. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kanako N. Kusanagi

About the author

Kanako N. Kusanagi is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Advanced School Education and Evidence-based Research, Graduate School of Education, The University of Tokyo. She specializes in comparative education and sociology of education, mainly focusing on international education transfer and the professional development of teachers. She is the co-author and co-editor of Tokkatsu: The Japanese Educational Model of Holistic Education, published by World Scientific.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lesson Study as Pedagogic Transfer

  • Book Subtitle: A Sociological Analysis

  • Authors: Kanako N. Kusanagi

  • Series Title: Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5928-8

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5927-1Published: 02 November 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-5930-1Published: 03 November 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-5928-8Published: 01 November 2022

  • Series ISSN: 1573-5397

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-9791

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXI, 178

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Education, general, International and Comparative Education, Sociology of Education

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