Neil Kenny
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Kenny |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Kenny |
| SIGNATURE | KENNY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dublin City University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2340-6586 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The paradox of visibility: The educational experiences of autistic trans and nonbinary students in the republic of Ireland
Dissidence et basse naissance: De Castellion à Ramus
Le terme anachronique de « dissidence » peut aider à rendre visible le principe de contestation qui structurait la vie intellectuelle et religieuse du seizième siècle européen. Certains penseurs clés prennent leurs distances avec les systèmes qui les ont formés, qu’il s’agisse d’Érasme, de Lefèvre d’Étaples, de Calvin, de Castellion, de Postel, de Ramus, ou plus tard de Comenius. Aux facteurs intellectuels et culturels bien connus pourrait-on ajo…
‘One of them is the way I think, the other is the way I am’: The lived educational experiences of autistic trans and nonbinary students in the Republic of Ireland
This article explores the experiences of autistic trans and nonbinary students across educational contexts in Ireland. Semi-structured phenomenological interviews were conducted with adult participants (n = 4) regarding their experiences within education. The interviews were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Findings underscore the central role of school culture in creating relational dynamics which either facilitate …
Anxiety floods the entire system: A qualitative study exploring teacher perspectives regarding how anxiety impacts autistic pupils with co‐occurring intellectual disabilities
This qualitative study investigates teachers' perspectives on anxiety among autistic learners with intellectual disabilities (ID) in special school settings. Research in this area remains limited, with existing studies often overlooking the distinct ways anxiety manifests and interacts with ID in this population. Semi‐structured interviews with eight teachers explored their views on anxiety presentation, triggers and strategies for support. Refle…
The Handbook of Creative Data Analysis
Crossroads: Collaboration at the Intersection of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Times
Discussions on the potential for technology to disrupt education have appeared at regular intervals for many years [...]
A Whole Education Approach to Inclusive Education: An Integrated Model to Guide Planning, Policy, and Provision
Inclusion is an important aspect of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education. This article will discuss the significance of recent developments in the field of school-based bullying prevention and evaluate their applicability to the policy discourse of inclusive education. Both inclusive education and school-based bullying remain contested phenomena without a clear consensus regarding their definition or how to operationali…
“I Saw Things through a Different Lens…”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Autistic Teachers in the Irish Education System
This Autistic-led phenomenological qualitative study explores the experiences of Autistic Teachers in the Irish Education system. While autism has received attention in Irish educational research, it is notable that Autistic teachers are under-researched. This study was conducted by an Autistic teacher-researcher and used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to design and conduct semi-structured interviews with four Autistic teachers to addre…
Exploring the Attitudes of School Staff towards the Role of Autism Classes in Inclusive Education for Autistic Students: A Qualitative Study in Irish Primary Schools
The use of the designated special class model for autistic pupils in mainstream schools within the Irish education system has dramatically increased in recent years, as has the scrutiny regarding its alignment with increased policy focus on inclusive education. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore the views of twelve staff members, four special class teachers, four mainstream class teachers, and four principals of pri…
Thought about action: Ergon in Gargantua
Rabelais’s fictional chronicles communicate thought about action, including about the relationship of action to social status. They explore and test the view, which was widespread in the period, that the actions you undertake in life should be determined by your social status. The notion that certain actions properly characterise different social groups because those groups have distinct functions in society is widely communicated by the term erg…
Mapping experiences of pathological demand avoidance in Ireland
Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is contended to be a distinct presentation within autism characterised by extreme levels of anxiety in response to the demands of everyday life, manifested in excessive levels of demand avoidance. This results in complex interactions with service providers in education and health settings, impacting on outcomes for individuals and their families. This national study sought to gather the viewpoints of individual…
Care does not just belong at home: Inclusion in doctoral supervision for a student with traumatic brain injury
This paper presents an examination of the first author’s experiences and unique positioning as a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI hereafter) survivor in doctorate supervision. Autoethnography was used to connect her personal to her cultural experience in this environment where the voices of both supervisors and student enrich doctoral supervision practices. We explore the complex intersections of the first co-author’s experience relating to neurodiver…
Transformative Inclusion: Differentiating Qualitative Research Methods to Support Participation for Individuals With Complex Communication or Cognitive Profiles
Recent decades have seen an increase in the use of qualitative research methods within disability research, often seeking to include the voices of individuals with disabilities in research informing policy and service provision. However, such cohorts of participants often present with diverse communication profiles, leading to negative assumptions about their capacity to participate in traditionally common forms of qualitative data collection, su…
An innovative research approach for inclusion studies for those with Traumatic Brain Injury
Students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often marginalized in terms of participation in higher education because of an implicit association of TBI with less academic functioning. The first named author is a Ph.D. scholar who aimed to add her voice to the voices of others and examine the lived experience of students with the same condition to identify possible supports that would enhance inclusion in higher education. This research was driv…
Incivility in Higher Education: Challenges of Inclusion for Neurodiverse Students with Traumatic Brain Injury in Ireland
This paper explores the lived experience of incivility for neurodiverse students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Ireland. The higher education (HE) environment can be challenging for students with TBI. Incivility is common in higher education, and students with disabilities such as TBI are often marginalized within academia, making them more vulnerable to incivility. For this paper, data are drawn from the first author’s autoethnographic stu…
Special education reforms in Ireland: Changing systems, changing schools
Ireland has a distinct and complex history regarding the education of persons with special educational needs (SEN) and in its approach to inclusion. Special and general education largely developed in parallel and separately. As recently as the 1990s, legal actions by parents seeking educational rights for children with severe disabilities prompted appropriate provision for these students and a shift towards inclusive schools. The Education for Pe…
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe by Warren Boutcher; Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
Book Review| April 01 2020 The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe by Warren Boutcher; Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan Boutcher, Warren, The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Vol. 1: The Patron-Author, 848 pp.; Vol. 2: The Reader-Writer, 576 pp.Desan, Philippe, Montaigne: A Life, trans. Rendall, Steven; Neal, Lisa (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 832 pp. Neil …
Oral History, Moral Injury, and Vietnam Veterans
Moral injury is a relatively new concept in the field of clinical psychology. Coauthors Napoli (Brooklyn College), and Vietnam veterans Brinson, Kenny, and Furey, employing the notion of “shared authority,” revisited oral histories conducted more than a decade ago to see if they could identify instances or episodes in those interviews that might be interpreted or explained using the concept of moral injury. Analysis revealed that indeed, moral in…
La Collection comme mode discursif dans les relations de voyage françaises aux XVI e et XVII e siècles
L'expression récit de voyage peut laisser présupposer un mode discursif dominant, celui de la narration. Cependant, dans le genre viatique du seizième au dix-huitième siècle, la narration se conjuguait constamment avec un deuxième mode discursif, que certains critiques ont appelé l'inventaire ou la description. Reste pourtant à mettre en évidence une autre dimension de ce mode non-narratif - la collection. Tout en étant intimement liée à la descr…
The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
INTRODUCTION PART 1 Institutions: University PART 2 Institutions: Church PART 3 Institutions: The Culture of Curiosities Discursive Tendencies: Collecting PART 4 Discursive Tendencies: Narrating Sexes: Male PART 5 Discursive Tendencies: Narrating Sexes: Female
F rançois B éroalde de V erville: Le Moyen de parvenir. Tome i F rançois B éroalde de V erville : Le Moyen de parvenir. Tome ii
Transcription avec présentation, notes et index par Hélène Moreau et André Tournon, avec la collaboration de Jean-Luc Ristori. Paris, Champion, 2004. 497 pp. Hb €43.00. Fac simile édité par Hélène Moreau et André Tournon avec la collaboration de Jean-Luc Ristori. Présentation d'André Tournon. Paris, Champion, 2004. 322 pp. Hb €76.00. In 1984 Hélène Moreau and André Tournon brought out what was then, and has remained ever since, by far the most sc…
Les Marguerites françoises; ou, Thresor des fleurs du bien dire
François Desrues: Fac-similé de l'édition de T. Reinsart, Rouen, 1609, d'après l'exemplaire conservé à la médiathèque Jean Lévy (Lille). Préface et bibliographie de Charles-Olivier Stiker-Metral. (Mémoire des Lettres). Presses universitaires de Reims, 2003. xxi+556 pp. Pb €24.00. Little known today, unpublished since the seventeenth century, the Marguerites françoises was once a best-seller, going to at least seventeen editions in Rouen alone, wh…
Histoire des Vers qui filent la Soye
The Palace of Secrets
The palace of secrets: Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance conceptions of knowledge
Transformative Inclusion: Differentiating Qualitative Research Methods to Support Participation for Individuals With Complex Communication or Cognitive Profiles
Recent decades have seen an increase in the use of qualitative research methods within disability research, often seeking to include the voices of individuals with disabilities in research informing policy and service provision. However, such cohorts of participants often present with diverse communication profiles, leading to negative assumptions about their capacity to participate in traditionally common forms of qualitative data collection, su…
Incivility in Higher Education: Challenges of Inclusion for Neurodiverse Students with Traumatic Brain Injury in Ireland
This paper explores the lived experience of incivility for neurodiverse students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Ireland. The higher education (HE) environment can be challenging for students with TBI. Incivility is common in higher education, and students with disabilities such as TBI are often marginalized within academia, making them more vulnerable to incivility. For this paper, data are drawn from the first author’s autoethnographic stu…
Special education reforms in Ireland: Changing systems, changing schools
Ireland has a distinct and complex history regarding the education of persons with special educational needs (SEN) and in its approach to inclusion. Special and general education largely developed in parallel and separately. As recently as the 1990s, legal actions by parents seeking educational rights for children with severe disabilities prompted appropriate provision for these students and a shift towards inclusive schools. The Education for Pe…
From poetry to prose: Béroalde de Verville and philosophical writing
The Palace of Secrets
The palace of secrets: Béroalde de Verville and Renaissance conceptions of knowledge
Representations of Nature
This chapter examines the different ways in which nature is imitated or represented in the works of Renaissance writers. It suggests that encyclopaedic works sought to imitate nature’s inner universals while its flux and diversity were represented by writing which propounds a more unsystematic conception of knowledge. It explains that during the Renaissance period, the structure of knowledge was inseparable from that of nature. Thus, encyclopaedi…
Conclusion
This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on encyclopaedism and the works of Béroalde de Verville. It suggests that Béroalde illustrates both encyclopaedism and its opposite because his writing was emphatically transformed from one to the other. An encyclopaedic conception of knowledge during the Renaissance period manifested itself in texts which sought to record the circle of necessary learning in a significant sequence and in the div…
Structuring Knowledge
This chapter examines how the diverse structures used by Béroalde de Verville and other Renaissance writers structure knowledge itself. It suggests that the structures of Renaissance writing were affected by the tensions inherent in encyclopaedism so much that it became generically ambivalent. Most of these writings were in the form of philosophical fiction and they can be characterised by a disjunction between the haphazard surface structure and…
Renaissance Encyclopaedism
This chapter examines key features of encyclopaedism during the Renaissance period. It analyses the wide range of genres used for learned purposes during the Renaissance period and suggests that genre plays an indispensable role in determining whether a given body of information is encyclopaedic or not. It suggests that the example of Béroalde de Verville reveals that encyclopaedism lead to a cultivation of the miscellany and of philosophical fic…
Curiosité’ and philosophical poetry in the French Renaissance
"Curiosite" and Philosophical Poetry in the French Renaissance
Histoire des Vers qui filent la Soye
The Uses of Curiosity in Early Modern France and Germany
INTRODUCTION PART 1 Institutions: University PART 2 Institutions: Church PART 3 Institutions: The Culture of Curiosities Discursive Tendencies: Collecting PART 4 Discursive Tendencies: Narrating Sexes: Male PART 5 Discursive Tendencies: Narrating Sexes: Female
F rançois B éroalde de V erville: Le Moyen de parvenir. Tome i F rançois B éroalde de V erville : Le Moyen de parvenir. Tome ii
Transcription avec présentation, notes et index par Hélène Moreau et André Tournon, avec la collaboration de Jean-Luc Ristori. Paris, Champion, 2004. 497 pp. Hb €43.00. Fac simile édité par Hélène Moreau et André Tournon avec la collaboration de Jean-Luc Ristori. Présentation d'André Tournon. Paris, Champion, 2004. 322 pp. Hb €76.00. In 1984 Hélène Moreau and André Tournon brought out what was then, and has remained ever since, by far the most sc…
Les Marguerites françoises; ou, Thresor des fleurs du bien dire
François Desrues: Fac-similé de l'édition de T. Reinsart, Rouen, 1609, d'après l'exemplaire conservé à la médiathèque Jean Lévy (Lille). Préface et bibliographie de Charles-Olivier Stiker-Metral. (Mémoire des Lettres). Presses universitaires de Reims, 2003. xxi+556 pp. Pb €24.00. Little known today, unpublished since the seventeenth century, the Marguerites françoises was once a best-seller, going to at least seventeen editions in Rouen alone, wh…
La Collection comme mode discursif dans les relations de voyage françaises aux XVI e et XVII e siècles
L'expression récit de voyage peut laisser présupposer un mode discursif dominant, celui de la narration. Cependant, dans le genre viatique du seizième au dix-huitième siècle, la narration se conjuguait constamment avec un deuxième mode discursif, que certains critiques ont appelé l'inventaire ou la description. Reste pourtant à mettre en évidence une autre dimension de ce mode non-narratif - la collection. Tout en étant intimement liée à la descr…
Oral History, Moral Injury, and Vietnam Veterans
Moral injury is a relatively new concept in the field of clinical psychology. Coauthors Napoli (Brooklyn College), and Vietnam veterans Brinson, Kenny, and Furey, employing the notion of “shared authority,” revisited oral histories conducted more than a decade ago to see if they could identify instances or episodes in those interviews that might be interpreted or explained using the concept of moral injury. Analysis revealed that indeed, moral in…
Special education reforms in Ireland: Changing systems, changing schools
Ireland has a distinct and complex history regarding the education of persons with special educational needs (SEN) and in its approach to inclusion. Special and general education largely developed in parallel and separately. As recently as the 1990s, legal actions by parents seeking educational rights for children with severe disabilities prompted appropriate provision for these students and a shift towards inclusive schools. The Education for Pe…
The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe by Warren Boutcher; Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
Book Review| April 01 2020 The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe by Warren Boutcher; Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan Boutcher, Warren, The School of Montaigne in Early Modern Europe, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017). Vol. 1: The Patron-Author, 848 pp.; Vol. 2: The Reader-Writer, 576 pp.Desan, Philippe, Montaigne: A Life, trans. Rendall, Steven; Neal, Lisa (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017), 832 pp. Neil …
Incivility in Higher Education: Challenges of Inclusion for Neurodiverse Students with Traumatic Brain Injury in Ireland
This paper explores the lived experience of incivility for neurodiverse students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) in Ireland. The higher education (HE) environment can be challenging for students with TBI. Incivility is common in higher education, and students with disabilities such as TBI are often marginalized within academia, making them more vulnerable to incivility. For this paper, data are drawn from the first author’s autoethnographic stu…
An innovative research approach for inclusion studies for those with Traumatic Brain Injury
Students with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often marginalized in terms of participation in higher education because of an implicit association of TBI with less academic functioning. The first named author is a Ph.D. scholar who aimed to add her voice to the voices of others and examine the lived experience of students with the same condition to identify possible supports that would enhance inclusion in higher education. This research was driv…
Crossroads: Collaboration at the Intersection of Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Times
Discussions on the potential for technology to disrupt education have appeared at regular intervals for many years [...]
A Whole Education Approach to Inclusive Education: An Integrated Model to Guide Planning, Policy, and Provision
Inclusion is an important aspect of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education. This article will discuss the significance of recent developments in the field of school-based bullying prevention and evaluate their applicability to the policy discourse of inclusive education. Both inclusive education and school-based bullying remain contested phenomena without a clear consensus regarding their definition or how to operationali…
“I Saw Things through a Different Lens…”: An Interpretative Phenomenological Study of the Experiences of Autistic Teachers in the Irish Education System
This Autistic-led phenomenological qualitative study explores the experiences of Autistic Teachers in the Irish Education system. While autism has received attention in Irish educational research, it is notable that Autistic teachers are under-researched. This study was conducted by an Autistic teacher-researcher and used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to design and conduct semi-structured interviews with four Autistic teachers to addre…
Exploring the Attitudes of School Staff towards the Role of Autism Classes in Inclusive Education for Autistic Students: A Qualitative Study in Irish Primary Schools
The use of the designated special class model for autistic pupils in mainstream schools within the Irish education system has dramatically increased in recent years, as has the scrutiny regarding its alignment with increased policy focus on inclusive education. This qualitative study used semi-structured interviews to explore the views of twelve staff members, four special class teachers, four mainstream class teachers, and four principals of pri…
Thought about action: Ergon in Gargantua
Rabelais’s fictional chronicles communicate thought about action, including about the relationship of action to social status. They explore and test the view, which was widespread in the period, that the actions you undertake in life should be determined by your social status. The notion that certain actions properly characterise different social groups because those groups have distinct functions in society is widely communicated by the term erg…
Mapping experiences of pathological demand avoidance in Ireland
Pathological demand avoidance (PDA) is contended to be a distinct presentation within autism characterised by extreme levels of anxiety in response to the demands of everyday life, manifested in excessive levels of demand avoidance. This results in complex interactions with service providers in education and health settings, impacting on outcomes for individuals and their families. This national study sought to gather the viewpoints of individual…
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