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Direct linkAas, Marit; Vennebo, Kirsten Foshaug – Educational Action Research, 2023
This research study focuses on school leadership groups taking part in an action research project (AR project) within schools in a Norwegian municipality. The study aims to show and discuss how action research (AR) adopted in school change can help build collective leadership capacity in school leadership groups. Combined with the theory of…
Descriptors: Capacity Building, Instructional Leadership, Action Research, Supervisors
Vennebo, Kirsten Foshaug; Aas, Marit – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2022
This article examines the leadership of school principals who, based on the narrative case of the Blueberry School, discuss how they as principals would have responded to a similar problematic situation regarding a school change process. The study is grounded in the context of the Norwegian National School Leadership Programme. Theoretically, the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Instructional Leadership, Educational Change, Principals
Aas, Marit; Vennebo, Kirsten F.; Halvorsen, Kjell A. – Educational Action Research, 2020
In this paper, we investigate how a Benchlearning program for principals in Norway and Sweden supports changes in Norwegian principals' leadership practices. The program design builds on principles for practical action research. The aim of the program was to inspire changes in the principals' leadership practices that encourage innovative school…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Evidence Based Practice, Action Research, Educational Change
Enhancing System Thinking -- A Superintendent and Three Principals Reflecting with a Critical Friend
Henriksen, Øyvind H.; Aas, Marit – Educational Action Research, 2021
There is a growing body of action research on school improvement and development. Many of these studies have found the use of critical friendship valuable in relation to teachers' or principals' practice. Yet, little attention has been paid to critical friendship at the school district level. This study explores how a superintendent and three…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Reflection, Trust (Psychology), Systems Approach
Flückiger, Bev; Aas, Marit; Nicolaidou, Maria; Johnson, Greer; Lovett, Susan – Professional Development in Education, 2017
Despite group coaching being used to facilitate goal-focused change in a range of organizational contexts, there is little research evidence of its use or efficacy in continuing professional development programs for educational leaders. In the first part of this article we define coaching and consider the benefits and challenges of several forms…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Professional Continuing Education, Leadership Training, Training Methods
Aas, Marit – Educational Action Research, 2014
Most action researchers agree that action research consists of cycles of planning, acting, reflecting, and taking further action. However, in action research literature, there is something missing. The nature of reflection in the action research process, including its relationship with the tensions that arise while discussing purposes, processes,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Reflection, Models
