All Outputs (7)

Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy (2018)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R., & Rivers, N. (2018). Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 27(4), 523-535. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681366.2018.1534261

This paper addresses the turn towards discourses of resilience within Higher Education, and its shared conceptual space with notions of 'grit' or the promotion of a Growth Mindset. Of particular concern is how these discourses reinforce simplistic co... Read More about Resisting resilience : disrupting discourses of self-efficacy.

People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity (2016)
Journal Article
Robertson, I. J., & Webster, D. R. (2016). People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity. cultural geographies, 24(2), 311-318. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474016659235

This short photographic essay emerges from the recognition that identity, landscapes and heritage landscapes in particular are rarely configured and conceptualised wholly linguistically. An affective and emotional charge can involve visual and tactil... Read More about People of the croft: visualising land, heritage and identity.

A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue (2008)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R. (2008). A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue. Buddhist Studies Review, 25(1), https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v25i1.106

A dialogue, somewhat in the spirit of Samuel Becket’s Waiting for Godot, exploring early Buddhist attitudes to views, especially as in the Māgandiya-sutta of the Sutta-nipāta (vv.835-847). Is the aim to have right view, or go beyond views; or is righ... Read More about A View from the Crossroads : a dialogue.

A Year in the Blogosphere: Case Study (2008)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R. (2008). A Year in the Blogosphere: Case Study. Learning and teaching in higher education, 86-88

Case study

The Weary Buddha Or Why the Buddha Nearly Couldn't Be Bothered (2005)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R. (2005). The Weary Buddha Or Why the Buddha Nearly Couldn't Be Bothered. Buddhist Studies Review, 22(1), 15-25. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.v22i1.14057

A Review of Liberalism, Equality and Cultural Oppression (Andrew Kernohan 1998) and Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint (Steven Wall 1998) (1999)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R. (1999). A Review of Liberalism, Equality and Cultural Oppression (Andrew Kernohan 1998) and Liberalism, Perfectionism and Restraint (Steven Wall 1998). Philosophers' magazine, 55-55

A joint review of two books

The Buddha in the Machine: Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence (1998)
Journal Article
Webster, D. R. (1998). The Buddha in the Machine: Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence. Philosopher (Philosophical Society of England), 86(1),