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Ruth Ashbee

Shake Up School Thinking: Professionalisation and the Schools Discourse

The ideology of professionalisation first emerged in the nineteenth century, partly as the middle classes grew and began to seek a...

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Ruth Ashbee

Literacy, Curriculum and Teaching

Everyone agrees literacy is A Good Thing, but I’ve struggled to be able to think clearly about it. I’ve just not been able to think of...

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Ruth Ashbee

Civics and Self: Powerful Knowledge Curriculum in PSHE and Citizenship

There is a frustration at the heart of most PSHE and citizenship curricula. These subjects so often seem to lack... something. What is...

Ruth Ashbee

Curricular Objects – And A Warning

Categories are useful: words denote sets, and they allow us to talk with meaning. Exploring the meaning of words can help us to think...