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dc.contributor.authorAas, Marit
dc.contributor.authorVennebo, Kirsten Foshaug
dc.contributor.authorHalvorsen, Kjell Atle
dc.date.accessioned2019-12-19T13:40:02Z
dc.date.available2019-12-19T13:40:02Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-22
dc.description.abstractIn 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 practices. The program includes learning modes such as theoretical inputs, sharing experiences, school visits, training, and trialling of new leadership practices. Drawing on data from participants’ reflections on their learning and changes in their leadership practices, we identify transformations that have been realized and the ways in which the Benchlearning program has supported the transformations. The findings indicate that the program can be seen as a systematic and disciplined process, a ‘meta-practice’, that supports changes in the principals’ leadership practices, their understandings, and the conditions of their practice. More specifically, the findings show that the theoretical inputs and practical learning modes stimulated transformations of the principals’ thinking about leadership practices, what they do in practice and how they relate to others. In particular, the study suggests that the principals’ active participation in trialling new leadership practices in their own schools stimulated transformations.en_US
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in <i>Educational Action Research</i> on 22/01/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/<a href=https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2019.1566084>https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2019.1566084. </a>en_US
dc.identifier.citationAas M, Vennebo KFV, Halvorsen KA. Benchlearning - an action research program for transforming leadership and school practices. Educational Action Research. 2019:1-17en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1691125
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09650792.2019.1566084
dc.identifier.issn0965-0792
dc.identifier.issn1747-5074
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/16969
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen_US
dc.relation.journalEducational Action Research
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holder© 2019 Educational Action Researchen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Education: 280en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Pedagogiske fag: 280en_US
dc.titleBenchlearning - an action research program for transforming leadership and school practicesen_US
dc.type.versionacceptedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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