This article argues that the pause in whole school Ofsted inspections until the end of 2020, and possibly into 2021, offers the opportunity to re-examine the nature of school inspection as an appreciative process with inevitable limitations that Ofsted has so far failed to recognize. This raises the possibility of replacing the current adversarial system with a more consensual one grounded in basic principles similar to, but developed from, the process of school inspection pre-Ofsted by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Schools.

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观点：对疫情后全校巡视的思考

本文认为，Ofsted 对整个学校的检查暂停到 2020 年底，可能会持续到 2021 年，这为重新审视学校检查的性质提供了机会，将学校检查的性质视为一种欣赏过程，其中存在 Ofsted 迄今为止未能认识到的不可避免的局限性。这增加了用一种基于与英国女王陛下的学校督察局预先制定的学校督察过程类似但从其发展而来的基本原则的、更具共识性的对抗性系统取代当前对抗性系统的可能性。