| Title | 5. Acting in good conscience: The triumph of the oral method of deaf education (1921-1937) |
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| Landing page | https://ujonlinepress.uj.ac.za/index.php/ujp/catalog/book/200 |
| Publisher | UJ Press |
| Published on | 2025-05-29 |
| Long abstract | In this section, we see how Catholic schools for the deaf which originally started as employing deaf teachers and sign language are converted to the ‘modernist’ view of the oral method of deaf education as the most scientific and progressive form of deaf education. This creates tension between hearing Dominican sisters and deaf teachers. Levinas’ idea of ‘acting in good conscience’ is introduced to understand this shift in perspective. |