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1. Danger of a single story highlighted how easily and rapidly individuals create stereotypes of others.
2. Since learning about examining books, I've begun paying more attention to the author's background and evaluating if they're a part of the represented group.
3. Being culturally literate is necessary for meaningful interactions between individuals from differing backgrounds/religions/cultures/race; it opens your mind to new perspectives.

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1. My biggest takeaway from this module was the impact a single story can have on individuals.
2. Another takeaway is the importance that discussing inclusivity, representation, and diversity in education.
3. I learned how this helps create a learning environment that values and respects everyone, regardless of their backgrounds, cultures, and experiences.

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1. Books acting as mirrors and windows are vital to a child's self-perception, confidence, and perception of themselves in society. Books share ideas, stories, and information about cultures, races, religions, languages, and traditions.
2. cultural literacy is essential. Being culturally literate can help you understand, relate to, and interact with people from diverse backgrounds that may be very different from your own. It can help to develop a range of skills, such as communication and self-reflection.
3. Multicultural Children's Literature is significant for every society to educate children well and teach about multicultural. Many writers have written tragic, humorous, multicultural children's books throughout history. Every story can teach children essential life lessons, so they can use those stories as models when they grow up.

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1. Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass door is an amazing analogy for explaining multicultural literate and how people can learn and explore
2. The dangers of a single story is real since people barely know about the lives of minorities. The only thing they see is whatever the media tells them which is scary
3. I learned cultural authenticity is important, and especially crucial for first impressions because sometimes there might not be minorities in certain areas and a lot of assumptions and stereotypes are assumed.
4. Cultural literacy is also important when learning about other cultures if you want to learn authentic things like knowing how to act or speak in certain ways to be respectful and not offend anyone

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1. Multiculturalism can showcase diversity through literature. Being able to showcase accurate representation for a specific community can exposure children from a very young age.
2. Sadly multiculturalism can not be applied to all literature seen in a classroom. However, with more modern diversity having access to these representations can help students in finding their identity.
3. Single stories is the term used to express stories/literature that allows only one perspective and often encourages stereotypes.

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1. I learned the meaning of windows, mirrors and sliding glass doors in literature. They are important so everyone can feel represented in the book they are reading so they can have something to relate to.
2. I learned the harm of single stories. Single stories are stories about a group of individuals that has been a widely adopted perspective on a group of people even though it is untrue.
3. evaluating a children's book also requires evaluation of the author and the date of publication in order to better understand the content in the book

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1. I learned that children's books play a vital role in their education. Books are what develop creativity and develop children's mine.
2. Books allow children to see through another lens. Allowing them to learn about other cultures and traditions.
3. Single stories are not the best way to educate children. It allows only one perspective and often encourages stereotypes.

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Key Takeaways:
1. I was able to learn what multiculturalism education is and how it benefits students. It helps certain students feel accepted and others can learn about new cultures.
2. I also learned about how mirrors can act as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors. Books that act this way are books that help children feel seen and represented. They are able to see themself in the story. Thus, by seeing themselves portrayed in a positive way, they can then strive to achieve anything they want.
3. Another thing I learned from this module is how to examine books for bias as well as racism and sexism. During class, we were able to examine lots of different stories and learn how some books can contain harmful stereotypes that can give children bad impressions of either themselves or others.

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1. Multicultural education respects and equips children to flourish in a varied world. At its foundation, multicultural education promotes equality, justice, and equity, and it makes philosophical principles a reality in classroom settings.

2. Understanding a group of individuals from a certain culture's customs, routines, and history is known as cultural literacy. Understanding, relating to, and interacting with individuals from other backgrounds—some of which may be extremely different from your own—can be facilitated by cultural literacy.

3. In order to accurately define cultural authenticity, educators must carefully consider how a book affects its reader, especially younger readers. The most prevalent definition of cultural authenticity is arguably the reader's perception of the accuracy with which a particular cultural experience has been depicted in a book, especially when the reader is an insider to the culture that has been represented in that book.

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1. Multiculturalism is very important in the development of young minds. It can greatly help in their development of self-identity.
2. Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors books are very important as a foundation in children's literature.
3. Dangers of a single story, knowing that a book is a single sided story can greatly change how impactful they are to a entire culture or group of people.

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1. Authenticity is important in children's literature because representation matters to make children of culture feel like they belong. We need authors whom are members of the culture so it presents with accuracy and nothing is mislead.

2. The Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors reflects entering a different perspective when jumping into a new book. I like it and completely agree how these books can act as a gate way into different lives.

3. Multicultural books are essential to children to learn and help develop a positive self-concept because it provides knowledge about the history and traditions of many cultures.

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1. I discovered that multicultural books are essential for children's education because they encourage creativity and make them receptive to new ideas from various viewpoints.
2. Mirrors, windows, and sliding doors serve as the structural foundation of children's books. Your identities are reflected in the mirror foundation. Sliding doors and windows give you practice opportunities for people-watching.
3. The capacity to comprehend individuals from different backgrounds who are unfamiliar is known as cultural literacy. A more inclusive society can be achieved by promoting cultural literacy among its citizens.

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Module 1 (Multi-Cultural Children’s Lit) : 3-5 Points

1. The importance of multicultural children's literature: teaches children how to develop a positive self-concept. They not only learn about their own history and culture but others too!

2. Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors! Mirrors reflect one's person, history/culture. Windows opens up experiences for children to look at other's lives, and Sliding Glass Doors welcome children to visit other cultures, families, and experiences.

3. What Cultural Literacy is: it is being able to understand the traditions, regular activities, and history of a group of people from a given culture.

4. Learned about the dangers of a single story from Chimamandas Ted Talk. Single stories only tell a story about one experience. However, that one story starts being spread that everyone in that culture or race act in that way.

5. I learned about the people commonly not found in childrens literature: homeless families, families with incarcerated parents, and single mothers, or fathers.

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1. Cultural literacy is the ability to understand the traditions, regular activities and history of a group of people from a given culture that you may have not been aware about before.
2. It is important to be culturally literate so that we can reduce prejudice and inequality of other cultures.
3. It is also important to look for anti-bias books when reading to children so that we do not reinforce harmful and undermining stereotypes.

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1. I learned that multicultural books are vital to children's education because it helps them become creative and be open to new ideas from different points of view.
2. I learned that Horton hears a Who is not a multicultural children's book. It is just a children's book.
3. I learned that books can act as mirrors and windows. This is critical because these books tell children how some of society perceives them. It can interfere with their confidence.

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1. Diverse books are essential to let children see reflections of themselves.
2. Books can be windows you can look through and see other worlds and how they do or do not match.
3. Books that are sliding glass doors allow the reader to enter the world being portrayed.

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1. Multiculturalism in education means to showcase the diversity of the world that we live. This can be done through literature and written and illustrated for young children to adults. In the literature it can include an accurate representation of the history regarding a specific culture and explain its traditions and ways.
2. Multiculturalism is not found in every piece of literature. Some pieces of writing do not have displays of representation that allow others to be seen. Not every book acts as a mirror or window.
3. Books that act as mirrors and windows allow for readers of all ages to immerse themselves into a book. A book as a mirror allows someone to see a reflection of their own identity, and a window allows for someone to learn about different experiences and points of views.
4. Cultural literacy is the ability to understand people that come from diverse backgrounds that are not of familiarity. Cultural literacy allows for people to be more culturally sensitive and aware, creating a more inclusive society.

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1. Cultural literacy does not just mean to represent different cultures. Cultual literacy is when the author comes from a first POV in the culture itself, the information presented is accurate as well as authentic and the language is to be unbiased.
2. A single story is when someone hears one opinion and goes with it. They do not hear other opinions or the other side of the story. As a result, it becomes problematic where one can create prejudice ideas against that particular group. This is just due to the lack of information.
3. Multiculturalism in education is when we can respectfully represent different ethnic groups, include all types of children and show them it is okay to be different. This teaches kids to embrace each other and embrace different ideas. In the future, in the long run may reduce racism and discrimination among each other.

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1.     Multiculturalism in the field of school of education refers to teachers providing equality, equity, and justice, and establishes the reality ideals in classroom. It provides equitable opportunities for all students and keeps the process going to help students be successful.

2.     Children’s books have the foundation of mirrors, windows, and sliding doors. Mirror foundation reflects your identities. Windows provide opportunities for you to look for others, sliding doors help you to practice.

3.     The ways to analyze children’s books for racism and sexism. Throughout a children’s book illustrators such as minority characters is a way to determine if it carries any stereotype.

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Key Takeaways:
1) It is important to be educated on children's literature because it greatly impacts how children grow up and perceive the world around them since books can act as mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors.
2) Cultural literacy helps us interact with the people around is in an empathetic and respectful way. It is imperative that we know about other lifestyles and backgrounds so we can begin to accept those who are different than us.
3) Single stories are extremely dangerous because they place us in a box and encourage stereotypes. These are stories that often need to be unlearned and it takes time to recognize our own personal biases.

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Julianna Clayton
Module 1 Key Takeaways
1) Multi cultural education can be defined as education that values different students cultures and prepares students to thrive i a. diverse world. Multicultural education fosters equality, justice, and equity.
2) I learned how I as a future educator can assess books for their appropriateness in the classroom. I plan on looking out for books that have a negative stereotype or an oversimplified generalizations about people or groups. I also plan on taking note on who the “hero’s” are in these books because we want to make sure all parties are being represented!
3) I also really want to make sure that children within my classroom are receiving an authentic education experience. We want members of a particular culture to feel that they are being accurately portrayed and represented.

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1. Multiculturalism is the gateway to allowing children to feel seen and allow literature to act as windows, mirrors, and sliding glass doors so children can learn about other cultures, express themselves, and gain insight on the world around them.
2. Single stories are all around us and we allow others to perpetuate these stereotypes and stories by staying silent.
3. We all need cultural literacy as it's a way for us to understand each other as well as educate others. For me, one of my favorite ways to learn about different cultures and groups is through food. The way each food from each culture has a story and enriching history behind it is always so educational and fascinating.

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1. What it means when a book is a window, sliding door, or mirror (perspective and how children view books)
2. Some common misconceptions on multiculturalism (themes that can be harmful, such as ostracization)
3. The definition of single stories and how impactful they can be to a person (the dangers of stereotypes and how they strip away someone's identity)

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1. California is a diverse state and we meet different types of people everyday. Multicultural education is important because it teaches students about different student cultures and how to respect one another despite the differences.
2. Cultural literacy is important because it can help you understand different traditions, regular activities, and history of a new culture    you were never aware of or had bias off.
3. Young children should not be exposed to single stories because they provide children with a narrow view of the world, restricting them from thinking outside the box.
4. To make sure children don't form a stereotypical image of different cultures in their mind, we should make sure books have cultural authenticity, such as no incorrect images/stereotypes, writer is from the culture they are talking about, etc...

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1. Multicultural childrens literature is important to helping children develop a sense of pride in their self-identities. It also helps them develop a sense of other cultures.
2. There are a multitude of ways to analyze childrens books, one of which is looking at the representation of characters. What are their backgrounds, abilities, cultures, and genders?
3. Bias is another important topic, what are the sterotypes attached to books, or generalizations that they make?
4. The author is another important topic, making sure they are part of the culture they are representing and making sure they don't misconstrue or misrepresent other cultures.

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1.Multiculturalism in education values the culture of students from different ethnic backgrounds, in addition it builds confidence within these students preparing them to thrive in the future.
2.Mirrors are books in which children can see a reflection of themselves and relate to. Moreover, windows are books are different worlds in which children cannot relate to. Lastly the sliding doors are books that allow children to be included within a new world.
3.Cultural literacy is understanding the traditions, religion, and history of other cultures.
4.Being cultural literate helps eliminate single stories, singles stories are stereotypes of people within a culture.

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1. The author's perspective plays a pertinent role in whether or not a book can act as a mirror or window for children.
2. It's important for children to be represented in books so they can develop a sense of confidence and to have a sense of belonging.
3. Having a single story that narrowly focuses on one aspect of a population promotes stereotypes and generalizations.