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States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises (2022)
Journal Article
Khan, A. (2022). States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises. Feminist Formations, 34(1), 318-338. https://doi.org/10.1353/ff.2022.0013

Drawing on personal teaching experience, this article considers the potentiality and pains of a pedagogic strategy that practises what José Esteban Muñoz calls a "methodology of hope" (2009). How can educators, particularly those located in the "enli... Read More about States of Precarity and Pains of Utopic Pedagogy: Methodologies of Hope in Times of Crises.

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.

What is Academic Challenge? Vulnerability, Resilience, Grit, Stretch, Toughness and Conceptualising the Student Experience (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, D. R., & O'Leary, R. (2017, November). What is Academic Challenge? Vulnerability, Resilience, Grit, Stretch, Toughness and Conceptualising the Student Experience. Paper presented at 10th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI2017), Seville

Recent focus on the student experience in Higher Education in the UK has moved away from student satisfaction towards student engagement, including the notion of ensuring students are intellectually stimulated and challenged in their learning. Simult... Read More about What is Academic Challenge? Vulnerability, Resilience, Grit, Stretch, Toughness and Conceptualising the Student Experience.

Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development (2016)
Book
Al-Attili, A., Karandinou, A., Daley, B., Abdelsabour, I., Farouk, H., Ahmed, M. H., Ahmed, Z. Y., Salet, T. A., Wolfs, R. J., Bos, F. P., Al Shiekh, B., Al-Badry, S., Cheng, C., Lundberg, S., Berdos, G., Al-Jokhadar, A., Jabi, W., Al-Matarneh, R., Fethi, I., Alacam, S., …Gerber, D. J. (2016). A. Al-Attili, A. Karandinou, & B. Daley (Eds.). Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development. Imperial House Publishers

We build on previous technological developments in CAAD by looking into parametric design exploration and the development of the concept of parametricism. We use the phenomenological backdrop to account for our physical experiences and encounters as... Read More about Parametricism vs Materialism : Evolution of digital technologies for development.

Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework to course outcomes: The case of foreign language learning (2014)
Journal Article
Chang, C. B., Wall, D., Tare, M., Golonka, E., & Vatz, K. (2014). Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework to course outcomes: The case of foreign language learning. Journal of Educational Psychology, 106(4), 1049-1065. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0036497

In previous studies of homework in core academic subjects, positive student attitudes toward homework were linked to higher achievement, whereas time spent on homework showed an inconsistent relationship with achievement. This study examined the gene... Read More about Relationships of attitudes toward homework and time spent on homework to course outcomes: The case of foreign language learning.

Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Webster, D. R. (2013, January). Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries. Paper presented at 6th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, Seville

Education has embraced social media. We tweet back and forth with our students. We tweet from field trips. We tweet for the eyes of potential students. We have facebook groups for our courses. We tag each other, have tumblr collections from student e... Read More about Social Media, Educational Engagement and Ethical Boundaries.