Requirements on contents and methods of general education in Vietnam

Specifically, according to Article 28 of the Education Law 2005 of Vietnam, requirements on contents of general education are prescribed as follows:

1. The contents of general education must ensure the popular, basic, comprehensive, career-orienting, and systematic characteristics, linking or with the realities of life, appropriateness to the psycho-physiological characteristics of pupils, and meeting the objectives of education at each level.

2. Primary education must guarantee pupils to acquire simple and necessary knowledge about nature, society and human beings; with basic skills in listening, reading, speaking, writing and calculating, with habits of physical exercise and hygiene; and with initial understanding of singing, dancing, music and arts.

3. Lower secondary education must consolidate and develop the contents learned in primary education, guarantee pupils the basic general knowledge in Vietnamese, mathematics, national history, other knowledge in social sciences, natural sciences, law, informatics, foreign languages; with necessary minimum understanding on techniques and career-orientation.

4. Upper secondary education must consolidate and develop the contents learned in lower secondary education and complete the contents of general education. Besides guaranteeing the general, basic, comprehensive, career-orienting knowledge for all pupils, there shall be advanced teaching in some subjects for developing the pupils' abilities and satisfying their needs.

Besides, the methods of general education are to promote the activeness, consciousness, initiatives and creativeness of pupils; to be appropriate to the characteristics of each grade and subject; to nurture the methods of self-study and the ability to work in team, to drill the ability of applying learned knowledge into practice; to have impact on pupils' emotional development, to bring them joy and pleasure of learning.

View more details at the Education Law 2005 of Vietnam, effective from January 01, 2006.

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