Despite a lack of conclusive evidence connecting autonomous schools and academic success, school autonomy is regularly championed as being a way of not only improving schools but as a way of improving the quality of education in socially and economically deprived areas. This research builds on a recent paper published in Irish Educational Studies that argues that school autonomy should not be advanced in Ireland by exploring how teachers feel about features of autonomous schools. Irish teachers who have previously worked in academy schools in England, and who now teach in disadvantaged schools in Ireland, were interviewed about their experiences and how they would feel about features of autonomous schools being implemented in Ireland. The experiences the participants had in England indicate how school autonomy can be experienced in different ways – morally proper ways that engage with the broad purposes of schooling such as focusing on students and their learning, and morally improper ways that prioritise looking good on external measures at the expense of students and their learning. Overall, the participants were opposed to schools in Ireland becoming more like English academies but felt that having greater local flexibility over the curriculum in schools and offering a wider range of subjects would be beneficial, provided that it was embraced and enacted in a morally proper manner.

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“我认为爱尔兰学校需要继续做他们正在做的事情”：爱尔兰教师在英语学院工作后对学校自治的看法

尽管缺乏将自治学校与学业成功联系起来的确凿证据，但学校自治经常被认为不仅是改善学校的一种方式，而且是提高社会和经济贫困地区教育质量的一种方式。这项研究建立在最近发表在《爱尔兰教育研究》上的一篇论文的基础上，该论文认为不应通过探索教师对自治学校特征的看法来推进爱尔兰的学校自治。之前曾在英国的学院学校工作，现在在爱尔兰的弱势学校任教的爱尔兰教师接受了采访，了解他们的经历以及他们对爱尔兰实施的自治学校的特点的看法。参与者在英格兰的经历表明如何以不同的方式体验学校自治——符合学校教育广泛目的的道德正确方式，例如关注学生和他们的学习，以及优先考虑外部衡量标准的道德不正确方式学生及其学习的费用。总体而言，参与者反对爱尔兰的学校变得更像英语学院，但认为在学校课程方面具有更大的本地灵活性并提供更广泛的科目将是有益的，前提是它以道德上适当的方式被接受和制定. 以牺牲学生和他们的学习为代价，优先考虑外部措施的道德上不正确的方式。总体而言，参与者反对爱尔兰的学校变得更像英语学院，但认为在学校课程方面具有更大的本地灵活性并提供更广泛的科目将是有益的，前提是它以道德上适当的方式被接受和制定. 以牺牲学生和他们的学习为代价，优先考虑外部措施的道德上不正确的方式。总体而言，参与者反对爱尔兰的学校变得更像英语学院，但认为在学校课程方面具有更大的本地灵活性并提供更广泛的科目将是有益的，前提是它以道德上适当的方式被接受和制定.