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Welcome to The Fruits Are Sweet. On these pages you'll find my blog, lists of contacts for specialist discourse, and all my CPD videos. Please do get in touch with suggestions - "in discourse we nurture distinction".

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Shake Up School Thinking: Professionalisation and the Schools Discourse

Ruth Ashbee

Dec 19, 2021
8 min

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

Jul 3, 2021
7 min

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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Civics and Self: Powerful Knowledge Curriculum in PSHE and Citizenship

Ruth Ashbee

Oct 26, 2020
8 min

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...

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Ruth Ashbee

Jul 9, 2020
2 min

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...

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Shake Up School Thinking: Professionalisation and the Schools Discourse

Literacy, Curriculum and Teaching

Civics and Self: Powerful Knowledge Curriculum in PSHE and Citizenship

Curricular Objects – And A Warning