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Why is it always the case when it comes to drawing a link between parenting and education that we make a stereotypical turn to Asians and Asians with hyphenated identities? This chapter deconstructs the “authoritarian” meme of Asian parenting by exploring through films the philosophy of parental pedagogy of which the “authoritative” and modernizing state is an integral part. It argues that both parenting and education need to evolve and adapt in order to enable children and student-citizens to revel in the discovery of transdisciplinary knowledge that challenges received and outdated ideas about the role of education in Asian societies, especially India and Hong Kong.
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Kolluri, S. (2016). What Is So Asian about Asian Parenting? Deconstructing “Tiger Moms” and “Tiger Dads” in Neoliberal Times Through Taare Zameen Par and I Not Stupid . In: Lee, JH., Kolluri, S. (eds) Hong Kong and Bollywood. Global Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94932-8_7
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