The 12th SLC Program
The 12th SLC Program
PROGRAM
Contents
1. Welcome Greetings 2
3. School Visit 5
4. Keynote Speakers 7
5. Plenary Speakers 12
6. Keynote Speeches 16
7. Plenary Symposia 17
8. Sessions 18
9. Access Information 23
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Welcome Greetings
Manabu Sato
President, International Network for School as Learning Community
It is with great pleasure that we get together at the 12th International Conference of School as Learning
Community 2025. The conference is held both by face-to-face meeting and by virtual meeting with Zoom
The theme of the conference is “Higher quality learning and more equitable education : Global
perspectives on School as Learning Communities”. Despite that the worst conditions of education under
the COVID-19 for 3 years from 2020 to 2022, school as learning communities had been active and
impacted school reform and learning innovation. The innovative challenges have continued up to now.
We, people who are concerned about human right of learning for all, are keen to know what this means
to democratize schooling in this hard age. SLC has proclaimed a robust cannon that both are inter-
supportive and inter-dependent of each other through enhanced inquiry and collaboration based on
listening pedagogy. Indeed, in the last year, we held the 11th international conference with nearly 1,500
colleagues from 26 countries and areas.
In this conference, we invite the leading professors from The United Kingdom, China, Korea, Singapore,
Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico and Japan as keynote and plenary speakers.You are cordially
welcome to take part in this exciting international event, and to share your innovations, experiences,
cutting-edge theories, distinguished practice and visions for further education reforms.
Chair: The Organizing Committee of the 11th International Conference of School as Learning
Community
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Plenary Symposia and Closing Remarks: West 2 Building Room 201, Gakushuin University
Sessions: West 2 Building Room 203, 204, 205, 304. 305, 306
9:00am-10:30 Plenary Symposium A
Yoshiko Kitada
Saitama University, Japan
Faikhamta Chatree
Kasetsart University, Thailand
Yuta, Suzuki
Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
10:30am-10:40am Break
10:40am-12:10am Plenary Symposium B
Tomoyuki Morita
Yamagata University, Japan
Chun-Yi Lin
National Taiwan Normal University, Chinese Taipei
12:10am-1:10pm Lunch
1:10pm- 2:50pm Sessions
Sessions Face to Face
Session1, 2: Practical Case and Its Interpretation
Session 3,4: Collaborative Learning of SLC
Session 5, 6, : Professional Development and School Reform
Sessions Online
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
3:00pm-4:00pm
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School Visit
Location
Kamine Junior Secondary School and Kita Junior Secondary School in Kawaguchi City
Kamine Junior Secondary School: 1515-1 Ishigami Kawaguchi-City, Saitama Prefecture
Kita Junior Secondary School: 364-2 Michiai, Kawaguchi-City, Saitama Prefecture
Brief Introduction
Nine schools in Kawaguchi's Kamine district, including Kamine Junior Secondary School and Kita Junior
Secondary School, were known as some of the most severely troubled schools in Japan. These nine
schools introduced the SLC reforms two and a half years ago, and since then have achieved miraculous
success in school reform, with learning innovation and lesson studies as the main focus.
Time Table
09:10 Arrival to the Kamine Junior Secondary School
09:35 - 10:25 Observation of All the Classrooms of the Kamine Junior Secondary School
10:30 - 10:50 Transit to the Kita Junior Secondary School (by busses)
11:15 - 11:40 Interview and Dialogue with 4 Principals of the Kamine District
11:50 - 12:40 Observation of All the Classrooms of the Kita Junior Secondary School
12:40 - 1:40 (Lunch Break)
1:40 - 2:30 Focused lesson (Science Lesson, 8th Grade)
2:40 - 3:00 (Short Break)
3:00 - 3:30 Lesson study by all the teachers of the Kita Junior Secondary School
3:30 - 4:00 Commentaries by Tomoyuki Morita and Yuta Suzuki
4:00 - 5:00 Exchange of commentaries by SLC global colleagues
5:00 Closing
Transport
At 8:15 AM Two busses pick up the foreign visitors at the main gate of Gakushuin University
At 6:00 PM The busses come back to the main gate of Gakushuin University
Attentions
(1) Japanese – English impromptu translation is supported. You are provided with a translation
receiver for listening the translation at the school.
(2) Lunch is served at the Kita Junior Secondary School.
(3) The fee for the school visit is 4,000 JPN including transportation, translation receiver and lunch.
Please pay the fee during the lunch break.
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Keynote Speakers
Christine Kim-Eng Lee is currently Emeritus Associate Professor in Policy, Curriculum and Leadership
Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Prior to this appointment, Christine was Head of Curriculum, Teaching & Learning (2006-2015), Head of
Humanities and Social Studies Education (2000-2006) Academic Groups and Vice-Dean of the School of
Arts (1997-2000). Her contributions to education have been recognized through various awards notably
the Distinguished Alumni Award from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Nanyang
Technological University’s Award for Distinguished Service and the Government of Singapore’s Public
Administration Medal and Long Service Award. Christine’s research interests are in the areas of teacher
development and learning, lesson study, listening pedagogy, cooperative and collaborative learning,
curriculum development, implementation and change, curriculum and teacher leadership, and curriculum
and school reforms. Christine plays an active role in the international Lesson Study community as
President of the World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS) (2011-2016) and Immediate Past
President (2017-2021) and continues to serve as an Executive Member of WALS Council. She is lead
editor of the WALS-Routledge Lesson Study Series. She is a well sought after keynote speaker and has
been invited to give keynotes and seminars at international conferences and academic symposiums in
various countries.
Professor Kiyomi Akita is Professor of Gakushuin University and Emeritus Professor of University of
Tokyo. Her majors is teacher education and educational psychology, especially focusing on teacher’s
professional learning and on discourse analysis in the classroom. she has engaged in lesson studies at
many schools as a supervisor for 30 years of experience in lesson study in Japan, ranging from early
childhood education to elementary, junior high, and high school. She had been the 9th president of
Japanese Association of Early Childhood Education and care and she had also been the 9th president of
Japanese Association of Developmental Psychology. She has been the chair of the teacher education
division, and vice-chair of the national curriculum division, the Central Education Council of Ministry of
Education in Japan. She has also been the president of National Children and Families Agency.
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Sumar Hendayana has been actively leading Lesson Study activities in various schools and universities
in Indonesia since 2006. He was Dean of Faculty of Mathematics and Science Education, Indonesia
University of Education from 2005 to 2009. He was Visiting Research Scholar for CICE (Center for the
study of International Cooperation in Education), Hiroshima University, Japan (December 2009 to March
2010). He was Visiting Professor, Nagoya University, Japan (10th June – 13th July 2019). He was on the
lesson study committee of Ministry of Education and Culture for School-University Partnership through
lesson study across the country from 2008 to 2022. He collaborated with JICA in lesson study training for
Asian and Ethiopian fellows. He chaired 2014 WALS conference in Bandung, Indonesia. He has been
working closely with Sumedang Regency Office of Education for promoting school as learning
community. In 2015, he received JICA Award. He was President of Indonesia Association of Lesson
Study from 2015 to 2023. Currently, he is member of advisory board of Indonesia Association of Lesson
Study.
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ATHAPOL ANUNTHAVORASAKUL:
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Assistant Professor Athapol Anunthavorasakul is a Head of Teaching Social Studies Division and a
Director for Research and Development Center on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD
Center), Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. His ESD Center has been selected
by Asia-Pacific Center of Education for International Understanding (APCEIU) to be Global Citizenship
Education Co-operation Center (GCC Center) since 2021. In Thailand, he has played significant roles to
promote policies and innovations in education such as Global Citizenship Education, Democratic
Citizenship Education, Equitable Education, and Teacher Education. He has involved in School as
Learning Community (SLC) movement for eight years. Until now, he and his colleagues support many
schools’ transformation with SLC philosophies via the concept of teacher learning together to escalate
quality learning for all students.
Dr. Son majored in pedagogy and wrote a thesis on the start of Korean colonial education in the context
of curriculum history under the theme of exemplary education in the Korean Empire era.
She gave lectures on curriculum, teaching and learning, and learning theory at universities in Busan, and
Korea Teachers' University.
Currently, instructional consulting and teacher education-related lectures are mainly conducted at school
sites across the country.
Since 2010, she has been the President of the Korean Institute of School as Learning Community, a
clinical research group for teachers.
The Korean Institute of School as Learning Community is a research group of former and current
teachers who agree with Professor Manabu Sato's philosophy of a learning community and is organized
into 60 research groups nationwide. Sixty research groups conduct lesson studies once a month, and
she also supports them.
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Dr. Moreno is the Director of the Research Institute for the Development of Education (INIDE) at the
Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. Her line of research is intercultural and gender education.
She holds a Master’s degree in Educational Policy from Harvard University and a PhD in Education from
the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Doctorate in Critical Gender Studies, the
Interinstitutional Doctorate in Education and the Masters in Research for the Development of Education.
Her most recent research is related to the search for educational alternatives from the movements for the
rights of indigenous peoples in urban contexts. She has extensive experience in professional
development of teachers from collaborative perspectives and communities of learning rooted in the
diversity of educational needs. She is part of the international association of Schools as Learning
Communities led by Dr. Manabu Sato of the University of Tokyo and a network of teachers in various
countries in Southeast Asia who seek to create reflective communities that focus on the learning of their
students.
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Plenary Speakers
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Dr. Chatree Faikhamta is an Associate Professor in Science Education at Kasetsart University, Thailand,
specializing in pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) development and teacher professional learning.
His research explores how science teachers develop their PCK through innovative approaches like
lesson study, contributing significantly to both pre-service and in-service teacher education in Southeast
Asia. His work, published in leading journals such as Research in Science Education and the
International Journal for Lesson & Learning Studies, bridges theoretical understanding of PCK with
practical classroom applications. His recent research project on enhancing pre-service teachers' PCK for
STEM through lesson study exemplifies his commitment to improving teacher education practices.
Through international collaborations in Canada, Japan, and New Zealand, Dr. Faikhamta has developed
a rich understanding of global perspectives in science teacher education while maintaining a strong focus
on the Southeast Asian context.
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Tomoyuki Morita is an associate professor of Yamagata University, Japan. He has been involved in a
number of school reforms based on the philosophy of “learning community”in Tohoku district, especially
in Yamagata. His research interests cover the history of education in a local community in Japan and
action research on building “learning community”; how children and teachers build listening relations,
how principals and teachers realize professional autonomy in the process of school reform. Recently his
research focuses on the making of a local network of teachers and the growth of early career teachers.
Khong Thi Diem Hang is currently working at Victoria University. She earned her Ph.D in teacher
professional development at the University of Queensland in 2020. She served as a co-investigator for a
teacher capacity building project in Indonesia funded by the Head Foundation from 2017 to 2018 and as
a coordinator and local participant analyst for a 2-year Toyota research project on school reform in
Vietnamese schools from 2012 to 2014. She has supported the promotion of Lesson Study for Learning
Community (LSLC) in Vietnam since 2006 by connecting leading Japanese scholars and practitioners
with Vietnamese teachers, local educational authorities at all levels and non-governmental organizations
and is the co-founder of Vietnam Lesson Study for Learning Community Network. Her research interests
include teacher learning and professional development, initial teacher education, doctoral education,
classroom talk, school reform, LSLC, education policy, and education in Vietnam. She has jointly
published 14 papers in internationally renowned education journals such as Higher Education,
Educational Review, Cambridge Journal of Education, Professional Development in Education,
Education and Information Technologies, and three book chapters under Routledge, Springer and ABC-
CLIO. One of the papers was awarded Educational Review’s Most Read Article in ‘Literacy, Languages
and Performing Arts’ stream in 2014.
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Chun-Yi Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Education and Graduate Institute of
Curriculum and Instruction at the National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. She earned her Ph.D. in
Instructional Systems Technology and M.S. in Educational Psychology at Indiana University
Bloomington, USA. She has engaged in School as Learning Community (SLC) efforts in conducting
observations and studying lessons with teachers since 2013. By working closely with elementary and
junior high school teachers, her recent research focuses on the design and practice to support student
agency and co-agency in collaborative learning settings.
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Keynote Speeches
March 1st
Keynote 1 Manabu Sato
Higher quality learning and more equitable education: Global perspectives on School as
Learning Communities
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Plenary Symposia
March 2nd
Plenary A
Yoshiko Kitada
School reform as learning community through collaboration between the boards of education
and schools
Yuta Suzuki
Practical Epistemology for Sustainability of School as Learning Community:
Formation of Narrative Records of Lesson Study
Plenary B
Tomoyuki Morita
How students help help seeking.
Chun-Yi Lin
Embracing uncertainty and surprise in the classroom: To encounter and engage in
mathematics through dialogues on a task
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SESSIONS
March 2rd: 1:10pm-2:50pm
Sessions Face to Face
West 2 Building
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Session 3, Room 205
Chair: Yuta Suzuki, Institute of Science Tokyo, Japan
Eisuke Saito, Vorachet Saejea, Sun Yee Yip, and Athapol Anunthavorasakul, Australia
Reforming schools for secure space in highly multicultural primary schools based on school as learning
community (SLC): Cases from Bangkok, Thailand
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Sessions Online
Session 7
Chair: Atsushi Tsukui, International Development Center of Japan, Japan
Session 8
Chair; Takayo Ogisu, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Session 9
Chair: Kanako Kusanagi, Nagoya University, Japan
Antonio Moscoso, Andrés Moreno, Carlos Hernández, Carlos Tun, Marleni Muñoz, Rosa
Aurora Avalos, Zuhey Trujillo, Moisés Rojas and Carolina Guadalupe, Margarita, Mexico
SLC in Tabasco: our first-year journey
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Gakuhuin University is located very close to the Mejiro Station. Just 1 minute walk.
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On the day, the busses will be back to the main gate of Gakushuin University at 6 pm.
Online Information
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Session1; https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81916906292?pwd=CzA33XDX4qyBmf2rKYKzik6BFqkO7S.1
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Sessions: Online
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日本語・日本語同時通訳
2 月 28 日 学校訪問
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3 月 1 日 開幕式と基調講演
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3 月 2 日 全体シンポ
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(3 月 2 日午後の分科会と閉会式は日本語同時通訳はありません。)
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