Window Mirror Sliding Door Connections Literature

Reading then becomes a means of self affirmation and readers often seek their mirrors in books.

Window mirror sliding door connections literature.

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. Reading then becomes a means of self affirmation and readers often seek their mirrors in books. Mirrors windows and sliding glass doors author. And for reading to.

In the essay dr. Don t forget about sliding glass doors ideas of representation and cultural awareness are central to the concept of windows and mirrors but critical reflection and thoughtful action are central to the idea of literature as a sliding glass door a concept similar to windows in that both present different experiences but sliding glass doors also can represent a change in perspective about. Windows allow us to see worlds unlike our own giving us a greater understanding of others. Rudine sims bishop mirrors windows and sliding glass doors this list has been compiled from texts revisited discovered and explored while putting together an emc course last term about teaching diverse literature.

Bishop makes the point that it s crucial for children from marginalized groups to view themselves in the books they read. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Sliding glass doors provide the invitation to escape into another place real or imaginary. For books to provide an opening onto worlds beyond their own experience worlds real or imagined because children need to see children that look different in the books they read.

Speaking to the lack of children s books with african american characters and themes the essay called for books to act as windows and mirrors that would allow all children to see themselves and the experiences of others in what they read.