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The relationship between teaching and learning: Examining Japanese and US professional development

2007; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 39; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/00220270701326160

1366-5839

Michele D. Crockett,

Teacher Education and Leadership Studies

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. DMI is a commercially available curriculum published in the USA; see Schifter et al. 1999 Schifter, D., Bastable, V., Russell, S. J., Cohen, S., Lester, J. B. and Yaffee, L. 1999. Building a System of Tens: Casebook, Parsippany, NJ: Dale Seymour. [Google Scholar]. Additional informationNotes on contributorsMichele D. CrockettThe books considered in this essay review are Sophia Cohen, Teachers’ Professional Development and the Elementary Mathematics Classroom: Bringing Understanding to Light (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), xx + 187 pp., US$49.95 (hbk), ISBN 0‐8058‐4287‐X and Clea Fernandez and Makoto Yoshida, Lesson Study: A Japanese Approach to Improving Mathematics Teaching and Learning (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), xvi + 250 pp., US$29.95 (pbk), ISBN 0‐8058‐3962‐3.