David Ian Walker

HIGHLIGHTED PUBLICATIONS

Selected publications

Walker, D.I. (2025) ‘Communities for Courage’, in Fowers, B., Oxford University Press. Virtue of Courage.

Walker, D.I. (2024) ‘Sociological Contributions to Moral Education’.  Journal of Moral Education

Gungordu, N*., Nabizadehchianeh*, G., Ma, W., O’Connor, E., & Walker, D.I. (2023).  ‘Moral Reasoning Development: Norms for Defining Issue Test-2 (DIT2)’, Ethics and Behavior https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2023.2206573

Walker, D.I. (2022) Learning to own professional practice through character – the case of the junior Army officer.  Journal of Moral Education.  51(4), 554-572. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2021.1991292

Walker, D.I., Thoma, S., & Arthur, J.A. (2021) Assessing ethical reasoning among junior British Army officers using the Army Intermediate Concept Measure (AICM).  Journal of Military Ethics, 20, p2-20.

Thoma, S. Walker, D.I., Chen, Y.H., Frichand, A., Moulin-Stożek, D. & Kristjánsson, K (2019).  ‘Assessing adolescent’s application of the virtues across multiple cultural contexts:  An empirical summary of studies using the Adolescent Intermediate Concepts Measure’ Developmental Psychology, 55:10, DOI: 10.1037/dev0000770

Walker, D.I., Thoma, S. (2018) ‘Moral and character education’, Oxford University Press: The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education.

Walker, D.I., Thoma S., Jones, C & Kristjánsson, K. (2017) Adolescent moral judgement: A study of UK secondary school pupils, British Education Research Journal, DOI: 10.1002/berj.3274.

Walker, D.I., Roberts*, M., & Kristjánsson, K. (2015) ‘Towards a new era of character education in theory and in practice’, Educational Review, 67(1), 79-96.

Walker, D.I. (2013). ‘Anticipating Army exit: Identity constructions of final year UK career soldiers’.  Armed Forces and Society, 39(2), 284 – 304.

Books

Yaghoubi J*& Walker,D.I. (2026). Empathy and Culture, under contract, Springer

Harrison, T, & Walker, D.I. (editors) (2018) Theory and Practice of Virtue Education, Routledge

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / ACTIVITIES

Fellow of the UK Higher Education Authority

Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Moral Education and for the Association of Moral Education

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. David Ian Walker is Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of Alabama. He is also Director of the Center for the Study of Ethical Development.   His interdisciplinary research explores how to develop character and how character is shaped by context and culture.

After his first career as a soldier, Walker received his PhD from Durham University, UK, and completed post-doctoral study at Purdue University, USA, before leading research at the University of Birmingham in UK. He was awarded a Vice Chancellors’ Senior Research Fellowship at Northumbria University, UK, before taking up his current position.