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