Keith Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894565 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Keith Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Keith |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Saskatchewan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1692-6230 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Preparedness for practice and workplace support of newly qualified allied health professionals: A qualitative study
INTRODUCTION: Allied health professionals (AHPs) constitute a significant part of the global healthcare workforce. It is important that AHPs are well prepared for practice to provide quality care for patients, for their personal wellbeing, and for workforce retention. In comparison to doctors, there has been strikingly limited research on AHPs preparedness for practice. The aim of this study was (1) to understand how well newly qualified AHPs wer…
What Helps Canadian Catholics Grow Spiritually in the Parish: An Exploratory Study
Teacher Education, Well-Being and a Sense of Belonging
This article draws from a Canadian project examining the holistic dimensions of well-being in teacher education programs. In keeping with calls to action in research and in the practice of teacher education, conceptualizations offering a wider view of well-being—beyond physical, mental, and emotional health—guided the inquiry. This study presents findings from a questionnaire disseminated to students in three teacher education programs in Western…
Starting teaching as a millennial: A generational view on early career teaching in Canada
Drawing from an extensive pan-Canadian study that examined the differential impact of induction and mentorship programs on early career teachers’ retention, this article compares perceptions of the early and late millennial and non-millennial participants regarding induction support, mentorship, professional development, thriving, and teacher attrition. The results of our multi-generational comparative research demonstrated differences in distinc…
Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Graduate Student and Faculty-Advisor Relationship
The relationship between graduate students and faculty members is a topic of great interest in higher education. While there is a wealth of theoretical and empirical research on the subject, discussions overlook the social dynamics that shape these relationships. This article seeks to fill this gap by presenting a conceptual framework that considers crucial components, including interpretations, reciprocal roles and responsibilities, relational f…
Role-Related Stress and Adversity Impacting Christian Clergy Resilience: A Pan-Canadian Study
Christian clergy are at risk of experiencing the negative impacts of role-related stress and adversity, especially burnout. The findings reported in this article were derived from a Canadian mix-methods study that collected data through an online survey with 519 clerics, 13 one-on-one interviews, and interpretation panels. Adversity themes identified related to workload, expectations, isolation, and personal challenges with various subthemes for …
Desarrollo de capacidades para comunidades de aprendizaje: Escuelas que funcionan
Mucho se ha escrito recientemente sobre la necesidad de que las escuelas sean diferentes de lo que han sido si han de enfrentar los desafíos de la sociedad del conocimiento (por ejemplo, Hargreaves y Evans, 1997; Hargreaves, 2003; Mitchell y Sackney, 2000). Los llamados persistentes a la reforma escolar han llevado a un creciente apoyo para que las escuelas sean vistas como comunidades de aprendizaje (DuFour & Eaker; 1998; Harris, 2002; Huffman &…
Clergy Resilience: Accessing Supportive Resources to Balance the Impact of Role-Related Stress and Adversity
Resilience is a helpful construct when considering how to support clergy well-being. The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about clergy resilience, specifically those resources that clergy perceived had supported their professional resilience. The study gave attention to aspects of preservice training and professional development that helped to foster clergy resilience and initiatives that clergy desired to further support their resilie…
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada
This article investigates discipleship in Canada, with a focus on spiritual and discipleship practices and processes that help to facilitate spiritual growth among congregants. The study draws on survey data from over 250 Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant congregations, with over 9100 participating congregants. The data shows how those in each denominational tradition understand the spiritual practices and discipleship processes tha…
Understanding self perceptions of wellbeing and resilience of preservice teachers
Research has shown that university students face higher distress than the general population; further, those in helping professions are at a higher risk. A survey was distributed to preservice teachers in one Bachelor of Education program to understand their perceptions of wellbeing and resilience. Results indicated that students' satisfaction declined as they neared the end of their program, and many indicated they had experienced issues with wo…
The Well-Being and Resilience of Canadian Christian Clergy
Evangelistic belief and behavior among Canadian congregants
With the recent surge of "religious nones" in many Western nations, there is a growing interest among some church attenders to effectively "reach" this demographic. In this article, we build on theories of strictness and social embeddedness to tackle three questions regarding evangelistic belief and behavior in Canadian Catholic, mainline Protestant, and conservative Protestant congregations. First, in what ways are evangelistic beliefs and behav…
Early Career Teaching Progression: Examining Canadian Teachers’ Experiences During their First Five Years in the Profession
Our pan-Canadian research study examined the differential impact of teacher induction and mentorship programs on the early-career teachers’ retention. Using the results from a pan-Canadian Teacher Induction Survey (N = 1343), we compared ECTs’ experiences with induction, mentorship and career development within their first five years. Findings point to a shift in the needs of teachers within the first five years, suggesting that with time career …
Vegetations of Frustration, Sources of Pestilence, Geologies of Desire: Notes Towards a Franco-Ecocriticism
This article considers, primarily through the lens of literature, the legacy of environmental issues from colonialism through the contemporary period, including attention to Louisiana, France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Morocco and Vietnam
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism…
Conceptualising leadership and emotions in higher education: Wellbeing as wholeness
In this conceptual article the authors outline an approach to leadership in higher education that foregrounds attention to wholeness and wellbeing, framing emotion as inherent to the practice of leadership, with all organizing actions inseparable from and influenced by emotion. The article is framed within findings from their research on wellbeing in schools and positive organizational scholarship that intentionally foregrounds virtues and positi…
Are you listening? The relevance of what pastoral/denominational leaders and theological educators are saying about preparing leaders for ministry
What might pastoral leaders in flourishing congregations have to say to theological educators in preparing leaders for the church and visa-versa? Drawing on interviews and focus groups with over one hundred pastoral/denominational leaders across Canada, four key themes emerged: (1) Equipping the Saints; (2) Practical Discipleship Training; (3) Spiritual Formation of seminary students; and (4) Missional and Organizational Training. The article con…
Conscience in public administration: More than just a chirping cricket
The policy and practice of public administration are caught between two seemingly incommensurate goals. Public servants are expected to be responsible to the oversight and control of democratically elected governments, yet, as the policy space becomes more complex, are forced to exercise more judgment and discretion in their responsibilities. Individual, collective, and professional conscience is motivated across this spectrum of challenges. This…
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
How do Canadian congregational and denominational leaders in Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant settings perceive and define what constitutes a flourishing congregation? Drawing on interview and focus group data with over one hundred leaders across Canada, we bring to description the perceptions, narratives, and experiences that church and denominational leaders hold about flourishing congregations. We highlight three central finding…
The Malaitan Mind and Teamship: Implications of Indigenous Knowledge for Team Development and Performance
We begin this paper by assuming that there is an openness to culturally diverse ways of knowing about management of organizations and accommodating indigenous experience, expertise and wisdom for navigating new economy. In a more globalized knowledge economy, certain contextually- astute thinkers within universities, NGOs, together with those managing public and sector management portfolios are asking: To what extent are framings of our organizat…
Practicum Teachers’ Perceptions of Success in Relation to Self-Efficacy (Perceived Competence)
How do student teachers gain confidence in their teaching abilities as part of their school-based practicum experience while increasing their self-efficacy from the successes of their practicum? To understand this question better, we explored preservice teachers’ post-practicum accounts of experiences of success in relation to efficacy (Bandura, 1977, 1982) with some reflection on motivational perspectives as found in self-determination theory (R…
Pêro Vaz de Caminha: Para fijar la mirada en el corazón de tinieblas del Nuevo Mundo
The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
The Imperial Dryden: The Poetics of Appropriation in Seventeenth-Century England
John Dryden (1631-1700) was first great poet, observed W.J. Bate, to labour under the burden of past. Over years, he read, wrote about, and adapted or translated an extraordinary number of European writers; these in turn formed textual ground from which his own art emerged. In The Imperial Dryden, David B. Kramer shows how Dryden used other writers' works not to save himself trouble of making but to make anew. Tracing course of poet's career, Kra…
Prolégomènes à une étude de la rhétoricalité césairienne
Prolégomènes à une étude de la rhétoricalité césairienne Keith Louis Walker L A PROCLAMATION du Grand Prix National 1982 de Poésie a qualifié l’œuvre césairien d’“ œuvre d’éveilleur de conscience” . 1 Le rôle d’éveilleur de conscience que Césaire s’est donné est un concept cher au poète surréaliste Paul Éluard. Trois ans avant la pub lication du Cahier,2 au cours de sa célèbre conférence prononcée à Londres en 1936, Eluard définit le devoir du p…
Understanding self perceptions of wellbeing and resilience of preservice teachers
Research has shown that university students face higher distress than the general population; further, those in helping professions are at a higher risk. A survey was distributed to preservice teachers in one Bachelor of Education program to understand their perceptions of wellbeing and resilience. Results indicated that students' satisfaction declined as they neared the end of their program, and many indicated they had experienced issues with wo…
The Well-Being and Resilience of Canadian Christian Clergy
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism…
Early Career Teaching Progression: Examining Canadian Teachers’ Experiences During their First Five Years in the Profession
Our pan-Canadian research study examined the differential impact of teacher induction and mentorship programs on the early-career teachers’ retention. Using the results from a pan-Canadian Teacher Induction Survey (N = 1343), we compared ECTs’ experiences with induction, mentorship and career development within their first five years. Findings point to a shift in the needs of teachers within the first five years, suggesting that with time career …
Conscience in public administration: More than just a chirping cricket
The policy and practice of public administration are caught between two seemingly incommensurate goals. Public servants are expected to be responsible to the oversight and control of democratically elected governments, yet, as the policy space becomes more complex, are forced to exercise more judgment and discretion in their responsibilities. Individual, collective, and professional conscience is motivated across this spectrum of challenges. This…
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
How do Canadian congregational and denominational leaders in Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant settings perceive and define what constitutes a flourishing congregation? Drawing on interview and focus group data with over one hundred leaders across Canada, we bring to description the perceptions, narratives, and experiences that church and denominational leaders hold about flourishing congregations. We highlight three central finding…
Conceptualising leadership and emotions in higher education: Wellbeing as wholeness
In this conceptual article the authors outline an approach to leadership in higher education that foregrounds attention to wholeness and wellbeing, framing emotion as inherent to the practice of leadership, with all organizing actions inseparable from and influenced by emotion. The article is framed within findings from their research on wellbeing in schools and positive organizational scholarship that intentionally foregrounds virtues and positi…
In Quest of the Lost Song of Self: Aime Cesaire and the Problem of Language
Much of modern poetry is characterized by a strong ontological focus. Black poetry since the twenties is almost exclusively preoccupied with questions of self, being, anguish and existence in modern society. The poetry of Aime Cesaire ponders the Black condition, drawing upon the business of living from day to day, grasping and summarizing in a poetic instance the meaning of the Black past and present while anticipating a fraternal and humanistic…
The Birth of Shakespeare Studies: Commentators From Rowe (1709) to Boswell-Malone (1821)
Prolégomènes à une étude de la rhétoricalité césairienne
Prolégomènes à une étude de la rhétoricalité césairienne Keith Louis Walker L A PROCLAMATION du Grand Prix National 1982 de Poésie a qualifié l’œuvre césairien d’“ œuvre d’éveilleur de conscience” . 1 Le rôle d’éveilleur de conscience que Césaire s’est donné est un concept cher au poète surréaliste Paul Éluard. Trois ans avant la pub lication du Cahier,2 au cours de sa célèbre conférence prononcée à Londres en 1936, Eluard définit le devoir du p…
The Imperial Dryden: The Poetics of Appropriation in Seventeenth-Century England
John Dryden (1631-1700) was first great poet, observed W.J. Bate, to labour under the burden of past. Over years, he read, wrote about, and adapted or translated an extraordinary number of European writers; these in turn formed textual ground from which his own art emerged. In The Imperial Dryden, David B. Kramer shows how Dryden used other writers' works not to save himself trouble of making but to make anew. Tracing course of poet's career, Kra…
The enigma of a late Pleistocene wetland in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia
Pêro Vaz de Caminha: Para fijar la mirada en el corazón de tinieblas del Nuevo Mundo
Practicum Teachers’ Perceptions of Success in Relation to Self-Efficacy (Perceived Competence)
How do student teachers gain confidence in their teaching abilities as part of their school-based practicum experience while increasing their self-efficacy from the successes of their practicum? To understand this question better, we explored preservice teachers’ post-practicum accounts of experiences of success in relation to efficacy (Bandura, 1977, 1982) with some reflection on motivational perspectives as found in self-determination theory (R…
The Malaitan Mind and Teamship: Implications of Indigenous Knowledge for Team Development and Performance
We begin this paper by assuming that there is an openness to culturally diverse ways of knowing about management of organizations and accommodating indigenous experience, expertise and wisdom for navigating new economy. In a more globalized knowledge economy, certain contextually- astute thinkers within universities, NGOs, together with those managing public and sector management portfolios are asking: To what extent are framings of our organizat…
Are you listening? The relevance of what pastoral/denominational leaders and theological educators are saying about preparing leaders for ministry
What might pastoral leaders in flourishing congregations have to say to theological educators in preparing leaders for the church and visa-versa? Drawing on interviews and focus groups with over one hundred pastoral/denominational leaders across Canada, four key themes emerged: (1) Equipping the Saints; (2) Practical Discipleship Training; (3) Spiritual Formation of seminary students; and (4) Missional and Organizational Training. The article con…
Conscience in public administration: More than just a chirping cricket
The policy and practice of public administration are caught between two seemingly incommensurate goals. Public servants are expected to be responsible to the oversight and control of democratically elected governments, yet, as the policy space becomes more complex, are forced to exercise more judgment and discretion in their responsibilities. Individual, collective, and professional conscience is motivated across this spectrum of challenges. This…
What is a Flourishing Congregation? Leader Perceptions, Definitions, and Experiences
How do Canadian congregational and denominational leaders in Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant settings perceive and define what constitutes a flourishing congregation? Drawing on interview and focus group data with over one hundred leaders across Canada, we bring to description the perceptions, narratives, and experiences that church and denominational leaders hold about flourishing congregations. We highlight three central finding…
Introduction to, and Interview with, Disabled People Against Cuts
The interview with Disabled People Against Cuts campaign group illuminates ways that disabled people in the UK are campaigning on and off the streets against neoliberal austerity measures and, more widely, against the capitalist city. As the development of cities was structured by capitalism, disabled people have, in so many material, organisational and symbolic ways, been excluded by a capitalist city not built in their image. Welfare capitalism…
Conceptualising leadership and emotions in higher education: Wellbeing as wholeness
In this conceptual article the authors outline an approach to leadership in higher education that foregrounds attention to wholeness and wellbeing, framing emotion as inherent to the practice of leadership, with all organizing actions inseparable from and influenced by emotion. The article is framed within findings from their research on wellbeing in schools and positive organizational scholarship that intentionally foregrounds virtues and positi…
Early Career Teaching Progression: Examining Canadian Teachers’ Experiences During their First Five Years in the Profession
Our pan-Canadian research study examined the differential impact of teacher induction and mentorship programs on the early-career teachers’ retention. Using the results from a pan-Canadian Teacher Induction Survey (N = 1343), we compared ECTs’ experiences with induction, mentorship and career development within their first five years. Findings point to a shift in the needs of teachers within the first five years, suggesting that with time career …
Vegetations of Frustration, Sources of Pestilence, Geologies of Desire: Notes Towards a Franco-Ecocriticism
This article considers, primarily through the lens of literature, the legacy of environmental issues from colonialism through the contemporary period, including attention to Louisiana, France, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Haiti, Morocco and Vietnam
Clergy Resilience: Accessing Supportive Resources to Balance the Impact of Role-Related Stress and Adversity
Resilience is a helpful construct when considering how to support clergy well-being. The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about clergy resilience, specifically those resources that clergy perceived had supported their professional resilience. The study gave attention to aspects of preservice training and professional development that helped to foster clergy resilience and initiatives that clergy desired to further support their resilie…
Discipleship from Catholic, mainline and conservative Protestant congregant perspectives in Canada
This article investigates discipleship in Canada, with a focus on spiritual and discipleship practices and processes that help to facilitate spiritual growth among congregants. The study draws on survey data from over 250 Catholic, mainline, and conservative Protestant congregations, with over 9100 participating congregants. The data shows how those in each denominational tradition understand the spiritual practices and discipleship processes tha…
Understanding self perceptions of wellbeing and resilience of preservice teachers
Research has shown that university students face higher distress than the general population; further, those in helping professions are at a higher risk. A survey was distributed to preservice teachers in one Bachelor of Education program to understand their perceptions of wellbeing and resilience. Results indicated that students' satisfaction declined as they neared the end of their program, and many indicated they had experienced issues with wo…
The Well-Being and Resilience of Canadian Christian Clergy
Evangelistic belief and behavior among Canadian congregants
With the recent surge of "religious nones" in many Western nations, there is a growing interest among some church attenders to effectively "reach" this demographic. In this article, we build on theories of strictness and social embeddedness to tackle three questions regarding evangelistic belief and behavior in Canadian Catholic, mainline Protestant, and conservative Protestant congregations. First, in what ways are evangelistic beliefs and behav…
Towards a Deeper Understanding of the Graduate Student and Faculty-Advisor Relationship
The relationship between graduate students and faculty members is a topic of great interest in higher education. While there is a wealth of theoretical and empirical research on the subject, discussions overlook the social dynamics that shape these relationships. This article seeks to fill this gap by presenting a conceptual framework that considers crucial components, including interpretations, reciprocal roles and responsibilities, relational f…
Role-Related Stress and Adversity Impacting Christian Clergy Resilience: A Pan-Canadian Study
Christian clergy are at risk of experiencing the negative impacts of role-related stress and adversity, especially burnout. The findings reported in this article were derived from a Canadian mix-methods study that collected data through an online survey with 519 clerics, 13 one-on-one interviews, and interpretation panels. Adversity themes identified related to workload, expectations, isolation, and personal challenges with various subthemes for …
Desarrollo de capacidades para comunidades de aprendizaje: Escuelas que funcionan
Mucho se ha escrito recientemente sobre la necesidad de que las escuelas sean diferentes de lo que han sido si han de enfrentar los desafíos de la sociedad del conocimiento (por ejemplo, Hargreaves y Evans, 1997; Hargreaves, 2003; Mitchell y Sackney, 2000). Los llamados persistentes a la reforma escolar han llevado a un creciente apoyo para que las escuelas sean vistas como comunidades de aprendizaje (DuFour & Eaker; 1998; Harris, 2002; Huffman &…
Teacher Education, Well-Being and a Sense of Belonging
This article draws from a Canadian project examining the holistic dimensions of well-being in teacher education programs. In keeping with calls to action in research and in the practice of teacher education, conceptualizations offering a wider view of well-being—beyond physical, mental, and emotional health—guided the inquiry. This study presents findings from a questionnaire disseminated to students in three teacher education programs in Western…
Starting teaching as a millennial: A generational view on early career teaching in Canada
Drawing from an extensive pan-Canadian study that examined the differential impact of induction and mentorship programs on early career teachers’ retention, this article compares perceptions of the early and late millennial and non-millennial participants regarding induction support, mentorship, professional development, thriving, and teacher attrition. The results of our multi-generational comparative research demonstrated differences in distinc…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Pedagogy (8 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works)