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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.
An article by rudine sims bishop children s literature scholar and recipient of the coretta scott king virginia hamilton award for lifetime achievement expands this concept even further.
It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.
Windows mirrors sliding glass doors and maps teach it for ward 0 there seems lit tle chance of devel op ing the humil i ty so urgent ly need ed for world coƶper a tion instead of world con flict as long as our chil dren are brought up on gen tle dos es of racism through their books.
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When lighting conditions are just right however a window can also be a mirror.