If all children see are “reflections of themselves, they will grow up with an exaggerated sense of their own importance and value in the world—a dangerous ethnocentrism” (Bishop 1990).
Sims Bishop, R 1990, ‘Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors’, Perspectives: Choosing and using books for the classroom, vol. 6, no. 3, viewed 29 August 2016 <https://www.psdschools.org/webfm/8559>.
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If all children see are “reflections of themselves, they will grow up with an exaggerated sense of their own importance and value in the world—a dangerous ethnocentrism” (Bishop 1990).
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Sims Bishop, R 1990, ‘Mirrors, windows, and sliding glass doors’, Perspectives: Choosing and using books for the classroom, vol. 6, no. 3, viewed 29 August 2016 <https://www.psdschools.org/webfm/8559>.