Using Texts as Mirrors: The Power of Readers Seeing Themselves
Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In schools across the country and world, students enter classrooms with rich diversity in backgrounds, identities, and experiences. They speak hundreds of different languages, come from countries around the world, espouse nuanced cultural and gender identities, and have an array of abilities and interests. But texts in school and classroom collections continue to reflect the so‐called mainstream with primarily White, English‐dominant, cis‐gendered characters without disabilities. Efforts have emerged on social media to encourage resources with relevance to children's lives, but teachers often struggle to make the case for their use in instruction. In this article, we provide a framework for teachers to incorporate texts to support their unique students, drawing from existing literature and our own research on using texts as mirrors in classrooms.
Source: The Reading Teacher
DOI: 10.1002/trtr.2139
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,500
OpenAlex ID: W4288037500