Understanding Teacher Learning in Professional Learning Communities in China: Experiences from a Shanghai Junior Secondary School

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.

Licui Chen is an assistant professor at the College of Education, Zhejiang University, China. Her main research areas include teacher professional learning and development, curriculum and instruction, and education policies and reforms. Her recent publications appear in Teaching and Teacher Education and Educational Research Review.