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Jun 28, 2021 · This essay profiles Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop, the 2020 Distinguished Scholar Lifetime Achievement Award recipient. It begins with biographical information about Bishop and her career trajectory in education followed by descriptions of three of her landmark works and the ways a sampling of scholars have utilized and expanded upon them.
Rudine Sims Bishop, professor emerita at Ohio State University, has been referred to as the "mother of" multicultural children's literature for her sociologically groundbreaking American children's literature research. [1]
Dec 7, 2021 · Mirrors and Windows (or Windows and Mirrors) is a term that was pioneered by Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop and is widely used to describe why children need to see themselves in the books they read.
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Apr 1, 2020 · An Ohio State University tribute, “Rudine Sims Bishop: ‘Mother’ of multicultural children’s literature,” stated: Shadow and Substance…remains a standard in the field. Some of the books she studied, by white authors for white children, portrayed black people as exotic or “different.”
Rudine Sims Bishop, professor emerita at Ohio State University, has been referred to as the “mother of” multicultural children’s literature for her groundbreaking American children’s literature research.
Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop is Professor Emerita of Education at The Ohio State University, where she has taught courses on children’s literature.
Dr. Bishop is a winner of numerous awards and has served as a respected member of many book awards committees over the course of her long and distinguished career. Her influential writing, speaking, and teaching articulates the history and cultural significance of African-American children’s literature. Her globally cited work, “Mirrors ...