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It is an immense responsibility to take care of the society’s young members and help them develop the necessary knowledge and required abilities essential for life in society. During the last centuries different theories and methods have been developed to help teachers to be prepared for the educational activity. Simultaneously we have seen that one problem for education and teachers is the gap between theory and practice, which perhaps has always been an issue. Two models to test and discuss teaching, learning and to accomplish a way to help learners are lesson and learning study. Lesson study is a method mostly used by experienced teachers to develop teaching regarding certain topics, to meet curriculum goals to help learners take initiative or develop certain learning prerequisites. Lesson studies are accomplished through research lessons indifferent forms, but all these build on teacher collaboration, self-critical reflection, and are in certain ways connected to demands from curriculum. Learning study, based on variation theory, is inspired from lesson study and design experiments. In learning studies researchers and teachers collaborate concerning targeted objects of learning and how to best help students to discern these. The theoretical base of variation theory guides teaching and learning, which focuses on the object of learning and how it should be varied, instead of focusing on the method or the context. Both models have shown positive results in practice. They definitely enhance teachers’, researchers’, and students’ knowledge as well as develop learning and teaching. But in what way can they enhance pre-service teachers in their knowledge about their upcoming practice? If you have tools helping you to understand or handle the somewhat difficult and complicated situation at school, your ability to do this in a more powerful way increases. This has been shown in the results of several studies of lesson and learning study, but what aspects are critical to such an increase and in what way can these models or this theory also be used in teacher education?  \nLesson Study In a school centered teacher education context  \nIn what ways can lesson studies, variation theory and learning studies help pre-service teachers to be better prepared for work? Many teachers in schools in England who take initial teacher trainee students on training placements struggle to know how best to support them. There is evidence that trainee mentors also tend to replicate practices with their charges that mirror those that were employed to support them when they were trainees (Edwards, 2003) . The LS approach to teacher learning provides a structure which my research suggests can work well in enabling host schools and teachers to work effectively to support the learning not only of trainees placed with them but also of the mentors and host teachers in the school. Furthermore, with centre-based initial teacher education in England shrinking dramatically and pre-service increasing in school based provision, there is further potential for the use of LS in such contexts. LS can also provide an excellent vehicle for those students who wish to extend their graduate teacher qualification into masters’ level studies in their induction year or beyond. The challenges lie principally with the leadership of the schools and colleges involved. This paper will set out models for making this work as well ","cbCaifBCD8NwU0Q1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifBCD8NwU0Q1","pdf",2312971,171,"English","# Key focus\n## Preparing pre-service teachers\n## Lesson study and learning study frameworks\n## Critical aspects and implementation challenges","[{\"question\":\"How do lesson studies support pre-service teachers’ preparation for teaching?\",\"answer\":\"Lesson studies provide a collaborative structure that helps host schools and teachers support trainees’ learning. They also strengthen mentors’ and host teachers’ understanding through self-critical reflection and research lessons aligned with curriculum demands.\"},{\"question\":\"What is the role of variation theory in learning study?\",\"answer\":\"Learning study uses variation theory to guide teaching and learning around the object of learning. 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