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Direct linkQian, Haiyan; Walker, Allan – Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2019
The purpose of this paper is to explore the role school principals play in managing the intersection of external and internal accountability systems within Chinese schools. Specifically, the paper seeks to understand principals' perception of top-down accountability demands and the strategies they adopt to build and strengthen internal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Accountability, Administrator Attitudes
Haiyan, Qian; Walker, Allan; Xiaowei, Yang – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2017
A positive teacher learning culture is important to effect meaningful changes in schools. Literature has established that successful school leaders can build and nurture learning cultures among teachers. However, less is known about how school leaders can shape the culture and make learning conditions happen at the schools in the Chinese education…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Schools, School Culture
Li, Lijuan; Hallinger, Philip; Kennedy, Kerry John; Walker, Allan – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2017
This study tests mediated principal leadership effects on teacher professional learning through collegial trust, communication and collaboration in Hong Kong primary schools. It is based on a series of single mediator studies, and uses the same convenience sample of 970 teachers from 32 local primary schools. It also adopts regression-based…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Principals, Leadership Responsibility, Faculty Development
Walker, Allan; Ko, James – School Leadership & Management, 2011
This article presents the findings of a study into the leadership practices of Hong Kong principals working within an environment of increasing accountability. The study set out to investigate the relationships between sets of principal leadership practices and the levels of "alignment," "coherence and structure" and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accountability, Leadership, Principals
Cheung, Robin Man-biu; Walker, Allan – Journal of Educational Administration, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to one's understanding of how beginning principals in Hong Kong exercise leadership by exploring the concurrent influence of their inner worlds and the external contexts on their leadership within a reforming environment. Design/methodology/approach: Based on a study of the work lives of beginning principals…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Beginning Principals, Leadership Training
Peer reviewedDimmock, Clive; Walker, Allan – Comparative Education, 1997
Interviews with nine principals of Hong Kong schools found that faced with uncertainties arising from Hong Kong's political transition, principals were somewhat confident about coping with changes in curricula and school management but felt less control over broader changes in access and opportunity following the expected influx of teachers and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Civics, Coping, Educational Change
