Shari Sabeti
Biographic Data
| ID | 209050 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shari Sabeti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shari |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabeti |
| SIGNATURE | SABETI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6984-8235 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Lessons from canoe school
Placed in the context of debates on decolonising schools, particularly the role of Indigenous culture in the curriculum, this article discusses key insights arising from the study of a grassroots educational programme focused on teaching the traditional skill of canoe building to out-of-school youth in the Marshall Islands. A ‘patchwork ethnography’ which draws on 8 years of engagement and four periods of fieldwork, it argues that the programme s…
Coming 'Face to Face with the People who Shaped Scotland
Museum education literature has paid surprisingly little attention to the distinctiveness of portrait galleries or portraits as a genre, despite the fact that they provide 'powerful spaces for pedagogy' (Hooper-Greenhill 2020: 24). Taking an ethnographic approach, this article offers a detailed analysis of such pedagogies at work in one creative writing class based at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It describes two pedagogical regimes - …
Reading During Adolescence
The authors explored adolescents’ reasons for reading or not reading books. In individual interviews with 39 adolescents (ages 15 and 16) in the United Kingdom, they reported that reading books offered an opportunity to relax, learn, escape the real world, and become immersed; was exciting, developed their empathy skills, and provided a form of social capital. However, challenges to book reading included a lack of time; that it was too effortful;…
Making murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i
This article explores the painting of two murals as part of a community arts education project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. It describes the process and outcome of mural making workshops conducted in two schools: one in Honolulu attended by migrant Marshallese children; the other with a community of Marshall Islanders, internally displaced as a result of the effects of nuclear testing on…
Creative ageing? Selfhood, temporality and the older adult learner
This paper is based on a long-term ethnography of an adult creative writing class situated in a major urban art gallery in the United Kingdom. It takes the claims of one group of older adults—that creative writing made them ‘feel younger’—as the starting point for exploring this connection further. It places these claims broadly within theories of learning in later life that advocate creative expression and reminiscence as important practices for…
"Inspired to Be Creative?"
This paper explores an enactment of public pedagogy through the ethnographic study of one museum creative writing class. It questions a theory of creativity that insists it is the properties of objects on display that inspire individuals. On the contrary, I argue that the flows of agency identified by the subjects themselves suggest creativity is multidirectional and that inspiration lies not in the objects but in the persons with whom those obje…
The ‘Strange Alteration’ of Hamlet
This article examines two comic book adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet produced for teenage readers and used in school classrooms. It seeks to understand the ways in which particular kinds of literacy are being implied and constructed through the textual practice of multimodal adaptation. It presents a close reading of sections of the texts and places them within the framework of multimodal theory and adaptation studies. The paper is part of a …
Three questions about the Internet of things and children
A different kind of reading’
This paper explores the possibilities for pedagogy inherent in the reading practices which emerged from an extra‐curricular graphic novel reading group set up in a Scottish secondary school. The research is presented within the framework of the new literacy studies and its focus on ‘practices’ and ‘events’ but, more specifically, it uses the framework developed by researchers working on the Literacies for Learning in Further Education Project con…
A Language Autobiography
Creative ageing? Selfhood, temporality and the older adult learner
This paper is based on a long-term ethnography of an adult creative writing class situated in a major urban art gallery in the United Kingdom. It takes the claims of one group of older adults—that creative writing made them ‘feel younger’—as the starting point for exploring this connection further. It places these claims broadly within theories of learning in later life that advocate creative expression and reminiscence as important practices for…
Three questions about the Internet of things and children
Making murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i
This article explores the painting of two murals as part of a community arts education project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. It describes the process and outcome of mural making workshops conducted in two schools: one in Honolulu attended by migrant Marshallese children; the other with a community of Marshall Islanders, internally displaced as a result of the effects of nuclear testing on…
A Language Autobiography
A different kind of reading’
This paper explores the possibilities for pedagogy inherent in the reading practices which emerged from an extra‐curricular graphic novel reading group set up in a Scottish secondary school. The research is presented within the framework of the new literacy studies and its focus on ‘practices’ and ‘events’ but, more specifically, it uses the framework developed by researchers working on the Literacies for Learning in Further Education Project con…
The ‘Strange Alteration’ of Hamlet
This article examines two comic book adaptations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet produced for teenage readers and used in school classrooms. It seeks to understand the ways in which particular kinds of literacy are being implied and constructed through the textual practice of multimodal adaptation. It presents a close reading of sections of the texts and places them within the framework of multimodal theory and adaptation studies. The paper is part of a …
Three questions about the Internet of things and children
Creative ageing? Selfhood, temporality and the older adult learner
This paper is based on a long-term ethnography of an adult creative writing class situated in a major urban art gallery in the United Kingdom. It takes the claims of one group of older adults—that creative writing made them ‘feel younger’—as the starting point for exploring this connection further. It places these claims broadly within theories of learning in later life that advocate creative expression and reminiscence as important practices for…
"Inspired to Be Creative?"
This paper explores an enactment of public pedagogy through the ethnographic study of one museum creative writing class. It questions a theory of creativity that insists it is the properties of objects on display that inspire individuals. On the contrary, I argue that the flows of agency identified by the subjects themselves suggest creativity is multidirectional and that inspiration lies not in the objects but in the persons with whom those obje…
Making murals in the Marshall Islands and Hawai’i
This article explores the painting of two murals as part of a community arts education project aimed at understanding Marshallese children’s experiences of displacement and belonging. It describes the process and outcome of mural making workshops conducted in two schools: one in Honolulu attended by migrant Marshallese children; the other with a community of Marshall Islanders, internally displaced as a result of the effects of nuclear testing on…
Reading During Adolescence
The authors explored adolescents’ reasons for reading or not reading books. In individual interviews with 39 adolescents (ages 15 and 16) in the United Kingdom, they reported that reading books offered an opportunity to relax, learn, escape the real world, and become immersed; was exciting, developed their empathy skills, and provided a form of social capital. However, challenges to book reading included a lack of time; that it was too effortful;…
Coming 'Face to Face with the People who Shaped Scotland
Museum education literature has paid surprisingly little attention to the distinctiveness of portrait galleries or portraits as a genre, despite the fact that they provide 'powerful spaces for pedagogy' (Hooper-Greenhill 2020: 24). Taking an ethnographic approach, this article offers a detailed analysis of such pedagogies at work in one creative writing class based at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It describes two pedagogical regimes - …
Lessons from canoe school
Placed in the context of debates on decolonising schools, particularly the role of Indigenous culture in the curriculum, this article discusses key insights arising from the study of a grassroots educational programme focused on teaching the traditional skill of canoe building to out-of-school youth in the Marshall Islands. A ‘patchwork ethnography’ which draws on 8 years of engagement and four periods of fieldwork, it argues that the programme s…
Pedagogy (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Agency (philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)