Boundaries of the Community of Teachers’ Implementing Mathematics Textbooks with Lesson Study and Open Approach - Creative Education

CE > Vol.10 No.9, September 2019

Boundaries of the Community of Teachers’ Implementing Mathematics Textbooks with Lesson Study and Open Approach ()

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DOI: 10.4236/ce.2019.109146 514 Downloads 1,402 Views

Author(s)

Chanika Senawongsa¹, Maitree Inprasitha², Anake Sudejamnong³

Affiliation(s)

¹Doctoral Program in Mathematics Education, Faculty of Education, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand.
²Centre of Excellence in Mathematics, CHE, Si Ayutthaya RD., Bangkok, Thailand.
³Mathematics and Statistics Program, Faculty of Science and Technology, Suratthani Rajabhat University, Suratthani, Thailand.

ABSTRACT

This study aimed to analyze boundaries of the community of teachers’ imple- menting the mathematics textbooks with Lesson Study and Open Approach. For this study, Mathematics textbooks were Japanese mathematics textbooks (Thai version), consisting of mathematics problems, flow of lesson, and students’ mathematical ideas. The participants were 2 expert teachers who use the textbooks in the classroom using Lesson Study and Open Approach since 2013. The data were collected in 2017 school year by using interview andclassroom observation with video recording. The data were analyzed based on Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder (2002)’s framework of community of practice. The results showed that the teachers practiced in 3 boundariesof the community: 1) within school—every week, they use the textbooks to design mathematical problems and anticipating students’ ideas with their school team, then they teach the lesson and observe students’ ideas in the classroom, and they reflect on students’ ideas that occurred in their classroom, 2) across schools—every semester, they form team with teachers who work in different schools of the project to design/observe/reflect a classroom by using the textbooks in school open class activity, and 3) across organization boundaries —every year, they and their school network participated in the activities, the national open class, the workshop for school teachers, the national and international conference, that help them to understand students’ ideas via classroom by using the textbooks and sharing with their school teachers and university experts.

KEYWORDS

Community of Practice, Implementing Mathematics Textbooks, Lesson Study and Open Approach

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Senawongsa, C. , Inprasitha, M. and Sudejamnong, A. (2019) Boundaries of the Community of Teachers’ Implementing Mathematics Textbooks with Lesson Study and Open Approach. Creative Education, 10, 1999-2012. doi: 10.4236/ce.2019.109146.

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