Marit Aas

Biographic Data

ID5848352
NAMEMarit Aas
GIVEN NAMESMarit
FAMILY NAMEAas
SIGNATUREAAS M
AFFILIATIONSOsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2015
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Group coaching integrated into national school leadership programs for professional development of school leaders

    Open AccessUlf Leo, Kirsten Foshaug Vennebo et al.ARTICLEEducational Management…2026

    A growing body of research has emphasized coaching as a key approach to the professional development of school leaders. In many countries, coaching in one form or another is integrated into national school leadership programs. This article reports on a study exploring a specific form of coaching, group coaching, integrated into two national school leadership training programs in Norway and Sweden. The study aims to contribute extended knowledge a…

  • Supporting school leaders in leading school development

    Lena Abrahamsen, Marit AasARTICLEEducational Action Research2024

    School leadership and school development are tightly connected and significant to improve students’ learning. The latter requires leaders with knowledge about leading change and school development, and in such, coaching can contribute to enhance leadership capacity. This study focuses on school leadership groups taking part in an action research project in a Norwegian municipality where local coaching teams are established to support leadership g…

  • Building leadership capacity in school leadership groups

    Open AccessMarit Aas, Kirsten Foshaug VenneboARTICLEEducational Action Research2023

    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 expansive learning, the theories of critical participatory action research and practice architectures frame…

  • Leadership and change in a Norwegian school context

    Open AccessKirsten Foshaug Vennebo, Marit AasARTICLEEducational Management…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 study is informed by cultural–historical activity theory. The findings exemplify how the principals’ …

  • Enhancing system thinking - a superintendent and three principals reflecting with a critical friend

    Open AccessØyvind H Henriksen, Marit AasARTICLEEducational Action Research2021

    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 principals changed their understandings through interaction with a critical friend. It draws on reflectiv…

  • School leadership for the future

    Hedvig Abrahamsen, Marit AasARTICLEJournal of Educational…2015Cited by: 3References: 2

    School leadership as a key for school reforms has become a dominant theme in education, as demonstrated by a growing body of research during the last 15 years. Still, little attention has been paid to how changing international discourses on school leadership are translated into national public policy documents during the last decade. As such, this study provides additional insight into this field by analysing how Norwegian policy documents trans…