Allan walker
Hong Kong Institute of Education
Professor, Education
China, People's Republic of
My co-authors include
Professor Philip Hallinger
Professor Allan David Walker
My Publications
Building and leading a learning culture among teachers
Educational Management Administration & Leadership
July 2016
Making sense of images of fact and fiction
Journal of Educational Administration
July 2015
Review of research on school principal leadership in mainland China, 1998-2013
Journal of Educational Administration
July 2015
A synthesis of reviews of research on principal leadership in East Asia
Journal of Educational Administration
July 2015
Principal leadership in China: an initial review
School Effectiveness and School Improvement
December 2012
Values: The Core of Successful School Leadership
September 2012
Principal selection panels: strategies, preferences and perceptions
Journal of Educational Administration
March 2012
Principal leadership in an era of accountability: a perspective from the Hong Kong context
School Leadership and Management
September 2011
School leadership in Asia Pacific: identifying challenges and formulating a research ag...
School Leadership and Management
September 2011
Leadership for Learning in China: The Political and Policy Context
January 2011
Leading collective capacity in culturally diverse schools
School Leadership and Management
February 2010
Seeking a Principalship: Specific Position Attractors
Leadership and Policy in Schools
July 2009
Are we looking through the same lens? Principal recruitment and selection
International Journal of Educational Research
January 2009
Leadership and moral literacy in intercultural schools
Journal of Educational Administration
July 2007
Leading authentically at the cross-roads of culture and context
Journal of Educational Change
April 2007
Navigating Culture and Context: The Principalship in East and South-East Asia
January 2007
Beginning principals: balancing at the top of the greasy pole
Journal of Educational Administration
July 2006
Preparing leaders, preparing learners: the Hong Kong experience
School Leadership and Management
April 2006
Constitution and Culture: Exploring the deep leadership structures of Hong Kong schools
Discourse Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
March 2004
A new approach to strategic leadership: learning‐centredness, connectivity and cultural...
School Leadership and Management
February 2004
VALIDATING THE COMPETING VALUES MODEL AS A REPRESENTATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE THR...
Organizational Analysis
January 2004
School Leadership and Management
January 2003
Moving School Leadership Beyond its Narrow Boundaries: Developing a Cross-cultural Appr...
January 2002
Globalisation and Societal Culture: Redefining schooling and school leadership in the t...
Compare A Journal of Comparative and International Education
October 2000
Mapping the Way Ahead: Leading educational leadership into the globalised world
School Leadership and Management
May 2000
Introduction−justifying a cross-cultural comparative approach to school leadership and ...
School Leadership and Management
May 2000
Developing Comparative and International Educational Leadership and Management: A cross...
School Leadership and Management
May 2000
Pre-service Primary Teachers' Perceptions about Principals in Hong Kong: Implications f...
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education
March 2000
Societal Culture and School Leadership
Asia Pacific Journal of Education
January 2000
Societal Culture and School Leadership Charting the Way Ahead
Asia Pacific Journal of Education
January 2000
Exploring and Interpreting Leadership Stories
School Leadership and Management
November 1999
Challenging the boundaries of sameness: leadership through valuing difference
Journal of Educational Administration
March 1998
Shape, Impression and Blockage: a case of leadership and culture change
Educational Studies
April 1997
Wisdom gained, wisdom given: instituting PBL in a Chinese culture
Journal of Educational Administration
December 1996
Principalship Training through Mentoring: The Singapore Experience
Journal of Educational Administration
April 1993
Putting the Case for the Case Study
Singapore Journal of Education
January 1992
Developing Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Education and Community