How we can widen our vision by learning to see from others' perspectives

What is it about?

This is an editorial which draws on articles in the issue to illustrate how limitations imposed by our theoretical lens can be partly overcome. The conceptual lenses from the phenomenography, variation theory and learning study tradition are applied to look at some of the papers which are from the lesson study traditions to reveal alternative ways of seeing.

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Why is it important?

Although there is an inherent limitation to what we can see as a consequence of the theoretical lens that we take, we can widen our vision by learning to see from others' perspectives and gain insights that would be useful to us.