Fang Yanping is an Associate Professor with the Policy, Curriculum and Leadership Academic Group. She received her Ph.D in Curriculum, Instruction and Education Policies at Michigan State University under the sponsorship of Spenser Research Training Grant and Teacher Education Endowed Fellowship. Her research interests focus on teacher knowledge, teacher learning, and curriculum theories and practices from an international comparative perspectives.

Her research publications focus on using social cultural theories and culture-historic activity theory to study classroom discourse, teacher learning in East Asia from workplace-embedded cultural practices, such as teacher homework practices and staffroom interactions, lesson study and teacher narratives as well as theorize the knowledge building process and curriculum and pedagogical implications. Her more recent research explores teacher coping and teacher resilience in Singapore through mixed methods research design.

Informed by her research, the courses she taught at doctoral, graduate and pre-service levels focused on teacher learning theories and practices with a focus on curriculum, teaching and assessment. She also teaches Middle Leaders in Schools (MLS) the power of narrative in leading from the middle and lesson study. Currently, she co-teaches PGDE Character and Citizenship Course (CCE) with MOE lead specialists. In addition, she has been teaching and supervising school principals and lead teachers from Shanghai, Chongqing, Hebei and Shandong, China, doing their master’s studies at NIE, for more than a decade. She has graduated doctoral students with a wide range of subject areas including mathematics education, historical inquiry, curriculum development in high ability learners in secondary English literature, and lesson study in primary English language.
She currently serves co-editor of International Journal of Lesson and Learning studies and is a founding council member of World Association of Lesson Studies (WALS).