What is the role of national defense and security education in education in Vietnam?

What is the role of national defense and security education in education in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Section 1 of the General National Defense and Security Education Curriculum issued with Circular 46/2020/TT-BGDDT:

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUBJECT

The subject of National Defense and Security Education plays a key role in educating citizens about their consciousness and responsibility in fulfilling the tasks of building a comprehensive national defense and people's security. It contributes to instilling patriotism, love for socialism, and nurturing national pride and self-respect among students. Alongside other subjects and educational activities, it helps to develop in students the qualities and general capacities prescribed in the overall curriculum, forming the ability to perceive issues of national defense and security and applying learned knowledge to life.

At the primary and secondary levels, national defense and security education is integrated through the content of subjects in the curriculum, combined with extracurricular activities suitable for the age, ensuring students form an initial understanding of the national tradition of establishing and defending the country, about the people's armed forces, and the sense of discipline, solidarity, patriotism and love for fellow citizens.

At the upper secondary level, it is a core subject, ensuring students have a basic understanding of comprehensive national defense, people's security, the tradition of resisting foreign invaders, the people's armed forces, and Vietnamese military arts. Students acquire fundamental and necessary knowledge about civil defense and military skills, ready to perform military service to protect the Nation.

Thus, according to the above regulations, the subject of National Defense and Security Education at the upper secondary level plays a crucial role in educating citizens about awareness and responsibility in fulfilling the tasks of building a comprehensive national defense and people's security. It contributes to instilling patriotism, love for socialism, and nurturing national pride and self-esteem in students.

What is the role of national defense and security education in education in Vietnam? (Image from Internet)

What are the 5 perspectives on constructing the national defense and security education curriculum for upper secondary level in Vietnam?

Based on Section 2 of the General National Defense and Security Education Curriculum issued with Circular 46/2020/TT-BGDDT, the 5 perspectives on constructing the national defense and security education curriculum for upper secondary level in Vietnam are defined as follows:

The National Defense and Security Education curriculum is built on the following perspectives:

1. Inheritance and Modernity

The curriculum is constructed based on the perspectives, policies, and strategies of the Communist Party, State law on the Strategy of Defending the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. It is developed on the foundation of theoretical and practical experiences of ancestral traditions in defending the country, Vietnamese military art, and updated achievements in modern military science and military pedagogy.

2. Development of Qualities, General Capacities, and Specific Capacities

The curriculum clearly defines the qualities and capacities that can be formed and developed in students through the subject: on one hand, it relies on the requirements for attaining qualities and capacities as a foundation and starting point for selecting educational content; on the other, it forms and develops key qualities, core capacities in students by guiding them to absorb and apply the subject's content to reality.

3. Practice and Practicality

The curriculum emphasizes practice, exercise, and application as essential content and an effective, practical method for developing students' qualities and capacities. This content focuses on the application of national defense, security knowledge, and skills into practice to contribute to developing the specific capacities of the National Defense and Security Education subject.

4. National and Humanitarian Values

It helps students correctly perceive patriotism, national spirit, humanity, and the Vietnamese people's solidarity in building and defending the country; international solidarity; helping students develop humanitarian values, community spirit towards values of tolerance, kindness, respect, peace, harmony, cooperation, and for the progress and development of society.

5. Openness and Connectivity

Based on ensuring content according to unified themes nationwide, the curriculum allocates a certain amount of time for schools to guide students in exploring issues of national defense, security, local traditions, and arts of defending the country, and developing an educational plan suitable for local conditions.

The curriculum denotes a well-structured learning plan supplementing knowledge from grade 10 to grade 12, meeting the requirements for teaching national defense and security education in upper secondary schools, suitable for students' cognitive, physical development, and the special characteristics of the subject.

What are regulations on the national defense and security education curriculum for upper secondary level in Vietnam?

According to Section 3 of the General National Defense and Security Education Curriculum issued with Circular 46/2020/TT-BGDDT:

- The National Defense and Security Education program helps students develop qualities: patriotism, humanity, honesty, responsibility; educates love for homeland, humanistic spirit, civic responsibility in the cause of building and defending the Nation, ensuring security, safety, and social order, ready to defend the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- Contributes to the development of students' general capacities: self-reliance, self-study; cooperation capacity; problem-solving and creative capacity through specialized capabilities such as: competence in recognizing national defense and security issues; ability to apply learned knowledge and skills to life.