**Name**

SARKAR ARANI Mohammad Reza

**Affiliation**

Professor of Teacher Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Graduate School of Education and Human Development, Nagoya University

Mohammad Reza Sarkar Arani is a Professor of Teacher Education in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at the Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan. His research areas of expertise include teacher education in theory and practice, the culture of teaching and learning and cross-cultural lesson analysis. He has written extensively on cross-cultural analysis of lessons in Singapore, Malaysia, Iran, Japan, etc. and “lesson study” as a Japanese approach of “science of improvement” and as a global solution for improving teaching and enhancing learning. He has participated in international conferences and published papers in various national and international journals in Persian, Japanese and English.