Discussing Lesson Study drawing on the Didactical Suitability Criteria to empower mathematics teachers’ professional knowledge

Mathematics & Science Education Research Seminar

Lesson Study (Fernández & Yoshida, 2005) and the Didactical Suitability Criteria (Font, Breda, & Pino-Fan, 2017) are two major didactical methodologies that teachers have available to analyze their practices. In this presentation Dr. Javier Díez-Palomar, University of Barcelona, will discuss how to combine both approaches to empower in-service and pre-service mathematics teachers’ professional knowledge in supporting them to further develop their ability to do mathematical didactical analysis. Evidence suggests that both approaches gain in a mutual complementarity improving teachers’ ability to face complexity in teachers’ education.

Dr. Javier Díez-Palomar, University of Barcelona

Dr Díez-Palomar is associate professor in de Department of Science and Mathematics Education, at the University of Barcelona. He is an active member of CREA (Community of Research for Excellence for All), and GRESUD (Research Group in Education to Overcome Inequalities; a research center recognized by the Catalan Government (AGAUR)). He is currently President of the Spanish Association of Multidisciplinar Educational Research, which is member of WERA (World Educational Research Association). He has been a permanent member representing Spain in the Commission Internationale pour l’Ètude et l’Amélioritation de l’Enseignement des Mathématiques (CIEAEM) since 2012. He has served as a former link convenor for the network 24 (Research in Mathematics Education) in ECER (European Conference of Educational Research).

His research interests include mathematics education, dialogic learning, professional teacher development, inclusive education, learning communities, adult mathematics education, and the analysis of interaction within classroom practices in mathematics. He is also member of the Numeracy Expert Group (OECD) participating in the PIAAC survey (2018-2023).