Dr Andrey Rosowsky
BA, MA, PGCE, MEd, PhD
School of Education
Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Education
a.rosowsky@Sheffield.ac.uk
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Dr Andrey Rosowsky
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Andrey is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. Before retirement, he spent 11 years as the Director of the full-time MA Programme in Education. Previous to this, he was the Director of Initial Teacher Education. He also supervised and examined doctoral students. Before beginning work at the university in 2005, he served as a consultant for a local authority and taught in a local secondary school. He started his teaching career as a teacher of English Literature at an Egyptian English-medium secondary school, Victoria College, in Alexandria. He continues to be associated with the School of Education through his research and publications.
- Research interests
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Andrey's principal research interests are in the fields of sociolinguistics, multilingualism and faith- based complementary schooling. His recent work focuses on religious language policy and planning and the relationship between language and meaning. He led an AHRC-funded international research network on performance and faith: Heavenly Acts – aspects of performance through an interdisciplinary lens. His current project (‘ultralingualism’) examines different linguistic contexts and purposes where language is regularly used but the prioritisation of accompanying meaning is either partial or absent.
- Publications
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Books
- Ultralingualism: The Disassociation of Language from Meaning. London: Bloomsbury.
- The Performance of Multilingual and 'Ultralingual' Devotional Practices by Young British Muslims. Multilingual Matters Limited.
- Heavenly Readings: Liturgical Literacy in a Multilingual Context. Multilingual Matters Ltd.
- Guide to Goodness (Dala'il al-Khayrat) (Complete Arabic-English Texts). Chicago: Kazi Publications.
Edited books
- Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings Heavenly Acts. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces. Multilingual Matters.
Journal articles
- To what extent are sacred language practices ultralingual? The experience of British Muslim children learning Qur’anic Arabic. International Journal of Bilingualism. View this article in WRRO
- Some linguistic implications of transferring rituals online : the case of bay'ah or allegiance pledging in Sufism. Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture, 8(3), 382-407. View this article in WRRO
- Sacred language acquisition in superdiverse contexts. Linguistics and Education, 53. View this article in WRRO
- Challenging the discursive positioning of young British Muslims through the multilingual performance of devotional song and poetry. International Journal of Multilingualism, 15(4), 412-434. View this article in WRRO
- Globalisation, the practice of devotional songs and poems and the linguistic repertoires of young British Muslims. Culture and Religion, 19(1), 90-112. View this article in WRRO
- The Role of Muslim Devotional Practices in the Reversal of Language Shift. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 38(1), 79-92. View this article in WRRO
- Religious classical practice: Entextualisation and performance. Language in Society, 307-330.
- Faith, phonics and identity: reading in faith complementary schools. LITERACY, 47(2), 67-78.
- Performance and flow: The religious classical in translocal and transnational linguistic repertoires. Journal of Sociolinguistics.
- Heavenly singings: the practice of naat and nasheed and its possible contribution to reversing language shift among young Muslim multilinguals in the UK. International Journal of Sociology of Language, 135-148.
- 'Writing it in English': script choices among young multilingual Muslims in the UK. J MULTILING MULTICUL, 31(2), 163-179.
- Learning to Read in a New Language: Making Sense of Words and Worlds, 2nd edition. ENGL EDUC-UK, 43(2), 178-181.
- Sinatra better than Sting? ‘Culture’ or ‘culture’?. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, 16(2), 213-219.
- Qur´anic Literacy: its central role in the life of UK Muslim Communities. NALDIC Quarterly, 5(2), 44-44.
- 'I used to copy what the teachers at school would do'. Cross-cultural Fusion: the role of older children in community literacy practices. Language and Education, 20(6), 529-542. View this article in WRRO
- Strategies and students: beginning teachers' early encounters with national policy. Literacy, 40(2), 79-87.
- Just when you thought it was safe: synthetic phonics and
syncretic literacy practices. English in Education, 39(3), 32-46. View this article in WRRO
- Decoding as a cultural practice and its effects on the reading process of bilingual pupils. Language and Education, 15(1), 56-70. View this article in WRRO
- Reading and culture: the experience of some of our bilingual pupils. English in Education, 34(2), 45-53. View this article in WRRO
Book chapters
- The Study of Religious Language Policy and Management In Benati AG (Ed.), Bloomsbury Applied Linguistics Research Issues and Methods Bloomsbury Academic
- Religious Ritual and Language in the Local Community, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Religion (pp. 420-432). Routledge
- Community, Analysing Religious Discourse (pp. 162-178). Cambridge University Press
- 3. Singing in My Language(s): How Religious Verse and Song Contribute to Minority Language Maintenance In Pandharipande RV, David MK & Eisenstein Ebsworth M (Ed.), Language Maintenance, Revival and Shift in the Sociology of Religion (pp. 33-50). Multilingual Matters
- A Challenge to Monolingualism: The Performance of Multilingual Devotional Poetry and Song among Young British Muslims In Rosowsky A (Ed.), Heavenly Acts: Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings (pp. 168-185). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
- Virtual Allegiance: Online 'Ba`yah' Practices within a Worldwide Sufi Order In Rosowsky A (Ed.), Faith and Language Practices in Digital Spaces (pp. 209-233). Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
- Muslim youth identities through devotional songs and poetry in South Yorkshire communities In Stevens D & Lockney K (Ed.), Students, Places and Identities in English and the Arts London: Taylor and Francis.
- Heavenly Entextualisations: the acquisition and performance of classical religious texts In Lytra V, Volk D & Gregory E (Ed.), Navigating Languages, Literacies and Identities: Religion in Young Lives
- Heavenly Verses: the Role of Devotional Song in Minority Language Maintenance In Ostler N & Lintinger BW (Ed.), The Music of Endangered Languages (pp. 92-99). Hungerford: Foundation for Endangered Languages.
- Faith literacies, Routledge Handbook of Literacy Studies (pp. 169-182).
- Heavenly Words: Researching Reading in Religious Settings In Wellington J (Ed.), Educational Research (pp. 125-130). London: Bloomsbury.
- Poetry, Culture and Identity In Dymoke S, Lambirth A & Wilson A (Ed.), Making Poetry Matter (pp. 180-183). London: Bloomsbury.
- Commentary: Poetry, Culture and Identity, Making Poetry Matter International Research on Poetry Pedagogy (pp. 180-183).
- Muslim, English, or Pakistani? Multilingual identities in minority ethno-religious communities In Martinez P, Moore M & Spaeth V (Ed.), Plurilinguismes et enseignement - Identités en construction Paris: Riveneuve.
- The role of liturgical literacy in UK Muslim communities, EXPLORATIONS IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE AND RELIGION (pp. 309-324).
Theses
- In Their Own Image: Voluntary Filmmaking at a Non-Profit Community Media Organisation.
- Ultralingualism: The Disassociation of Language from Meaning. London: Bloomsbury.
- Research group
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Literacies and Language research cluster