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What Are Mirror Books? Where Are You From? by Yamile Saied Méndez and Jaime Kim. Mirror books are books that reflect different aspects of students' identity, including: family. gender. race. ethnicity. culture (such as special traditions, celebrations, songs, nursery rhymes, and games) language and how language is used. religion.
Jul 26, 2022 · Texts can provide readers with mirrors to see themselves and windows to look into the lives of others (Sims Bishop, 1990). In this article, we focus on using texts as mirrors in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms, recognizing the central importance of all children having reflections of their identities and experiences in texts.
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If one goal of multicultural literature and texts is to enable students to draw connections between self and other, for text to act as both window and mirror, one has to explore whether or not that process is actually occurring in the classroom.
May 15, 2018 · The goals are to validate students’ identities through providing mirrors, to develop their understanding through providing windows, and to show them how they can be changed by literature through providing sliding glass doors.
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5 days ago · When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. 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.
Not only do texts that explicitly present multicultural perspectives need to be taught but all literature should be read through a multicultural lens to look at issues of power and oppression. These two approaches are complementary.
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Jan 25, 2019 · In the essay, Dr. 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. Dr. Bishop makes the point that it’s crucial for children from marginalized groups to view themselves in the books they read.
