Analysis on the Documentary “Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School”

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.298How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Documentary; “Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School”; Macro comparison; Case study

Abstract

The documentary “Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School” released in 2015, contributes numerous classic cases that have been discussed by scholars in the fields of the sociology of teaching and educational psychology, and is often used as teaching materials for related courses in Chinese universities. Through careful observation and study, this paper analyses the phenomena shown in the documentary and studies the underlying reasons for them from several aspects: the choice of school, the infusion of cultural identity, the psychological gaming between teachers and students, the concern for individuals in education under different institutional conditions and Krashen’s emotional filtering hypothesis, concluding that this documentary is more of an educational experiment recorded by the camera. The audience should have the ability to discriminate. The road to reform in Chinese education should be based on profound and practical reflection, promoting the emergence of educational policies and approaches that are in line with the laws of education and are corresponding to the economic and social development in the new era.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chenliang Zhao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Analysis on the Documentary “Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School”
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1640
EP  - 1644
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.298
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.298
ID  - Zhao2022
ER  -