Based on six-month fieldwork in a junior secondary school in Shanghai, this book qualitatively investigates the implementation of Teaching Research Group (TRG) practices and teachers’ different professional learning experiences within the structure of TRGs.
The author situates teacher professional learning in Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) within broader historical, social, and cultural contexts and further suggests that the practice of TRGs reflects the Chinese approach of balancing the seemly complex dualities (e.g., commitment and control, collaboration and authority,...