BA, MEd(Hons and University Medal), PhD (Sydney), FACE, AIMM

Adjunct Professor

Telephone: +61 2 9514 3394
Email: james.walker@uts.edu.au
Room: CB10.5.315
Campus: City Campus - CB10

Professor Walker has been involved in educational research for 30 years and is a member of the Research Centre for Organisational, Vocational and Adult Learning at UTS. He was Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) at the University of Sydney, Professor and Dean of Education at the Universities of Canberra and Western Sydney, and has held visiting appointments at Boston, Colorado, Harvard, London and Toronto Universities.

In addition to his adjunct position at UTS, Professor Walker is Principal of Integral Intelligence, a research, training and consultancy organisation specialising in individual, professional and organisational learning and performance improvement, through focused integration of practical, emotional and cognitive capacities, of a variety of modes of inquiry, and of values and thinking systems.

Teaching Areas:
Professor Walker’s teaching has included:
Curriculum Policy and Design, Educational Policy Analysis and Development, Organisational Learning, Philosophy of Education, Research Design and Method, Youth Culture and Education.

Research Areas:
Change in complex human systems; professional learning; organisational learning; lifelong learning; issues in human consciousness (philosophical, educational, therapeutic) as illuminated by systems theory and chaos/complexity theory.

Professor Walker’s community and professional involvements have included:

• Foundation President, Australian Council of Deans of Education 1991-93
• President, Australian Association for Research in Education 1991
• President, Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia 1987-90
• Chair and Member of several Ministerial Advisory Committees on Education in Commonwealth, NSW and ACT governments 1990-2000.
• Executive Editor, Educational Philosophy and Theory 1995-98.

Publications:
The history and philosophy of the competency movement in Australia, in B. Brennan and D. Dymock eds Continuing Professional Education - An Emerging Professional Practice Armidale: Department of Adult and Continuing Education, University of New England, 1995.

Professional standards for teachers in Australia, in D. Hustler and D. McIntyre eds Developing Competent Teachers: Approaches to Professional Competence in Teacher Education London: David Fulton, 1996, 98-113.

Practical educational knowledge, in D.N. Aspin ed. Logical Empiricism and Post-Empiricism in Philosophy of Education London: Heinemann, 1997, 138-54.

Self-determination as an education aim, in R. Marples ed. Aims of Education London: Routledge, 1999.

Theoretical privilege and researchers' contribution to educational change, in J.S. Gaffney and B.J. Askew eds Stirring the Waters: A Tribute to Marie Clay Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann, 1999, 239-60. (With V.M.J. Robinson.)

Lifelong learning and the learning organization, in D. Aspin, J. Chapman, M. Hatton and Y. Sawano eds International Handbook on Lifelong Learning Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001.

The professional education of teachers, in S. Dinham and C. Scott eds Teaching in Context Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research, 2001.