...Xingfeng Huang; Mun Yee Lai; Rongjin Huang Purpose This study aimed to explore how a group of Chinese primary mathematics teachers learned through conducting an online cross-cultural lesson study between China and Australia. Design/methodology/approach An expansive learning theory was adopted...

... as well as written and photographic documentation of the meetings. The analysis was carried out through the lens of expansive learning within an activity system (Engeström, 1987). This entailed a focus on contradictions between teachers’ ways of thinking and acting when individually and collaboratively...

... curriculum. Design/methodology/approach – The expansive learning perspective has been used to explore the ways practicing teachers learned to improve teaching through the transformation of learning objects and boundary crossing. Findings – Two cases are illustrated and compared to highlight...