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 theory.
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 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.
In the essay dr.
It has been twenty nine years since rudine sims bishop s seminal essay mirrors windows and sliding glass doors was published.