When lighting conditions are just right however a window can also be a mirror.
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Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author.
Bishop coined the phrase windows mirrors and sliding glass doors to explain how children see themselves in books and how they can also learn about the lives of others through literature.
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Choosing and using books for the classroom.
This essay originally appeared in perspectives.
Rudine simms bishop coined the terms in her 1990 article mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally published in the ohio state university perspectives.
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These windows are also sliding glass doors and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author.
Bishop makes the point that it s crucial for children from marginalized groups to view themselves in the books they read.
Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors originally appeared in perspectives.
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The phrase windows and mirrors has been used by educators especially when it comes to literacy for quite some time now.
In the essay dr.
As we read we grow to have a world view filled with empathy compassion and passion.
Choosing and using books for the classroom vol 6 no 3 summer 1990 and the hopes it expresses are just as relevant today.
Choosing and using books for the classroom.
This concept was initially introduced by educator emily style in 1988 for the national seed project.
Sliding glass doors provide the invitation to escape into another place real or imaginary.
Jo refers to the original essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors pdf 763kb by rudine sims bishop.