The idea that teaching and school leadership should be informed by research and other evidence has developed traction recently in England and other jurisdictions. Yet, such research has too seldomly involved the student perspective in leadership decision-making. This article presents a case study of an ‘all through’ academy in the south of England (Academy x ) that attempted to address this issue through research that was close to practice in nature. Here, school leaders, teachers, parents and, specifically, disadvantaged male students’ perspectives of barriers and enablers to their attainment were explored with a view to working collaboratively with these stakeholders to respond to the findings. However, we had not taken into account that the credibility of the students’ perspectives and the nature of the messages emerging from the findings would be questioned, and would influence a decision by school leaders not to act upon them. We consider how these issues might be addressed if student voice as a form of close-to-practice research is to become a reality.

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贴近实践的研究：对学生声音的需求和学院 x 的奇怪案例

教学和学校领导应通过研究和其他证据提供信息的想法最近在英格兰和其他司法管辖区受到关注。然而，此类研究很少涉及领导决策中的学生视角。本文介绍了英格兰南部的“全面”学院（Academy x）的案例研究，该学院试图通过接近于实践的研究来解决这个问题。在这里，学校领导、教师、家长，特别是弱势男学生对障碍和实现目标的推动因素的观点进行了探讨，以期与这些利益相关者合作，对调查结果做出回应。然而，我们没有考虑到学生观点的可信度和从调查结果中产生的信息的性质会受到质疑，并且会影响学校领导不采取行动的决定。如果学生的声音作为一种接近实践的研究形式成为现实，我们会考虑如何解决这些问题。