2023 David Clarke Memorial Lecture

The 2023 David Clarke Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Yoshinori Shimizu “Problematizing the Prerequisites for Classroom Research from the Learner’s Perspective“

The lecture and the Q&A will be held in person and as a zoom webinar on:
Monday, February 13th, 2023
5 pm AEDT (GMT+11; Melbourne time)
Lecture Theatre – Q230
Level 2, 234 Queensberry Street, Carlton

To register for in person attendance please follow this link.
To register for online attendance please follow this link.
If you are unable to attend, please do register for online attendance as a link to a recording will be sent to you after the event.

An anonymous mathematics educator from Japan appears twice in the book The Teaching Gap (1999), that described major findings of the first TIMSS Video Study (TVS) and their implications for the improvement of classroom instruction and the professional development through Lesson Study. Guess who he is? In this talk, Yoshi Shimizu shares an unknown origin of the Learner’s Perspective Study which started with his participation in the TVS as a consultant, followed by his reflections on the development of the LPS community of the researchers led by David Clarke. The Learner’s Perspective Study was designed with the aspiration of providing complementary accounts to the findings of other classroom studies, such as TVS, of complex social settings called classrooms by providing and analyzing rich data with the value and voice of both the leaners and the teacher. The study has the capacity of not only complementing other studies but also problematizing the prerequisites for classroom research. Based on the strength of the LPS, he shares a Japanese perspective on the reality of classroom by focusing on the tradition of lesson study and on teachers’ efforts of amalgamation of the learner’s perspective and their own in planning and implementing mathematics lessons.