Vietnam: What to study National Defense and Security Education for?

According to Circular No. 46/2020/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, National defense and security education plays a key role in educating citizens' awareness and responsibility for the performance of the task of building the all-people national defense and people's security, contributing to educating students about patriotism and socialism, fostering national pride.

- Together with other subjects and educational activities, it contributes to the formation of students of the general qualities and competencies prescribed in the master program, through the subject content, forming the capacity to perceive national defense and security issues and apply the learned knowledge to life.

- At the primary and lower secondary levels, defense and security education is integrated through the content of the subjects in the program, combined with extracurricular activities appropriate to the age, ensuring students formed initial understandings of the nation's tradition of nation building and defense, about the people's armed forces, and a sense of discipline, solidarity, love of the Fatherland, and love of compatriots.

- At the upper secondary level, it is a core subject, ensuring students have an initial understanding of the all-people national defense and people's security; on the nation's tradition of anti-foreign aggression, the people's armed forces and Vietnamese military art; have basic and necessary knowledge of civil defense and military skills; ready to perform military service to defend the Fatherland.

Thus, studying National Defense and Security Education will help educate students in patriotism, love for socialism, and foster national pride.

View more details at the Circular No. 46/2020/TT-BGDĐT of the Ministry of Education and Training of Vietnam, effective from January 15, 2021.

Thuy Tram

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