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Huang, Xianhan; Lai, Chun; Wang, Chan; Xu, Guonian – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2023
Although informal teacher learning (ITL) has been deemed critical for teachers in various contexts, it remains unknown how different kinds of ITL are associated with teacher self-efficacy, and how these relationships differ between public school teachers and private school teachers. Based on sociocultural theory and reflection theory, this study…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Teacher Education, Self Efficacy, Public School Teachers
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Huang, Xianhan; Lai, Chun – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2020
Purpose: It is vital in today's society that teachers are proactively involved in educational change. Given that proactive motivation is a critical driver of proactivity, this study aims to investigate how teachers' formal and informal workplace-learning experiences were connected with their proactive motivations to implement educational change.…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Educational Change, Learning Experience, Informal Education
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Lai, Chun – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2019
The educational potentials of social media both in the formal and informal learning contexts have been widely acknowledged. However, how social media use in the informal contexts might influence students' learning in the formal contexts is still underexplored. Path analysis of 141 survey responses from secondary school ethnic minority students in…
Descriptors: Social Media, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Ethnic Groups