Publications
Publication details [#44469]
Rosowsky, Andrey. 2006. ‘I used to copy what the teachers at school would do’. Cross-cultural Fusion: The Role of Older Children in Community Literacy Practices. Language & Education 20 (6) : 529–542. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper describes an experiment in a typical UK mosque school, where older girls, who were asked to take over the teaching of young girls, mix the literacy and language practices from both schooled and Qur’anic literacies, thus offering an example of syncretic literacy practice.