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“Passing as Normal”: Living and Coping With the Stigma of Deafness (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2016)
This autoethnography presents a narrative account of the author’s experience of living and coping with the stigma of
deafness. First, the autoethnographic stories explore the author’s experience of face-to-face encounters ...
The meaning of partnership in development: lessons in development education
(Center for Global Education, 2011)
A number of partnerships between Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in the global North and South have been developed in recent decades with the aim of bridging the North/South knowledge divisions which currently exist. ...
Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016)
This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently ...
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)
The BRFP staff includes one full-time Project Leader, and four additional fulltime staff comprising a Social Worker, Information Officer/Hospitality Centre Leader, Family Links Social Worker and Traveller Support Worker. ...
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering Summary Report
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)
The services provided by the BRFP embrace an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner 1979) in that they see each person, not as an isolated individual but as a member of a family and of the wider community. Consequently, ...
Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot, Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative
(Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin., 2016)
The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents. Doodle ...
A tale of two schools: educating Catholic female deaf children in Ireland, 1846–1946 (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2015)
This paper discusses the contributions of the Dominican Sisters and Sisters of Mercy in running schools for female deaf children in Ireland during the period 1846 to 1946. The schools were established as part of an attempt ...
Shaping public policy: Is there a place for values-led debate and discourse in the public sphere?
(Social Justice Ireland, 2010)
The Theology and spirituality of joining the dots
(Veritas in association with (CEIST) Catholic Education, an Irish Schools Trust, 2012)
Intercultural education, picturebooks and refugees: approaches for language teachers
(CLELEjournal, 2014)
Picturebooks can be used as a means of teaching a range of intercultural issues as well as enriching learners’ linguistic and literacy skills. As windows and mirrors, picturebooks can be a powerful vehicle in the classroom ...