Sciences of Europe # 75, (2021)
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PEDAGOGICAL SCIENCES SECONDARY STUDENTS’ ACTUAL AWARENESS OF EXPERIENTIAL AND CAREER-ORIENTED ACTIVITIES IN QUANG NINH PROVINCE UNDER GENERAL EDUCATION PROGRAM 2018 Phí Thị Hiếu Associate Professor Ph.D of Thai Nguyen University of Education, Viet Nam DOI: 10.24412/3162-2364-2021-75-2-23-25 ABSTRACT In this article, the author has analyzed the secondary school students’ actual awareness, in Quang Ninh province, of experiential and career-oriented activities, and the roles of experiential and career-oriented activities in the development of students' qualities and competencies. Keywords: Experiences, experiential activities, education program 2018, career-oriented activities, careeroriented experiential activities, school students’ actual awareness. 1. Introduction Educational innovation has become an urgent need and a global trend to improve the quality of human resources, to equip future generations with a solid cultural foundation and high adaptability to all changes of nature and society. Like other countries in the world, in recent years, Vietnam has undergone a drastic renovation of education, of which the introduction of the general education program 2018 is an example. This program is «built in the direction of developing learners' qualities and capacities to help them gain and good necessary qualities and competencies to become responsible citizens, as well as become cultural, industrious and creative employees who meet individual development requirements for building and defending the country in the age of globalization and the new industrial revolution... » [1]. In the general education program 2018, experiential and career-oriented activities at secondary and high schools are compulsory educational activities, which are directed, designed and guided by educators to create opportunities for students to approach reality, to experience positive emotions, to exploit previous experiences and to mobilize the synthesis of knowledge and skills of other subjects in order to perform ageappropriate assigned tasks or solve the real-life problems of school, family, and society. Through those activities, it helps learners to transform their
experienced experience into new knowledge, insights, and skills, contributing to the promotion of creative potential and ability to adapt to future life, environment and career. In order to carry out experiential and careeroriented activities successfully, the first necessary condition is a comprehensive, correct and profound understanding of the activities among the educational forces both in and outside the schools including the students. In this article, we have analyzed the secondary school students’ actual awareness, in Quang Ninh province, of experiential and career-oriented activities, and the roles of experiential and career-oriented activities in the development of students' qualities and competencies. Our research was carried out in January 2021 on 1,593 secondary school students in Quang Ninh province. The main research methods included written surveys and in-depth interviews. 2. Contents 2.1. Secondary school students’ actual awareness on the nature of experiential and career-oriented activities in Quang Ninh province Having asked the following question for secondary school students: Please choose the correct statements with the experiential and career-oriented activities under the general education program 2018, we obtained the following results: Table 1. Secondary school students’ actual awareness on the nature of experiential and career-oriented activities in Quang Ninh province Contents Quantity % It is another name for educational activities out of the classroom hours, which are 1,042 65.4 not mandatory to perform. As an educational activity with an independent position in the general edu372 23.4 cation program 2018, it is mandatory to perform. The practical activities of the subjects in the classroom are experiential and ca18 1.1 reer – oriented activities. Going on a field trip or picnics associated with the subjects are experiential and 875 54.9 career-oriented activities. Going on a field trip or picnic associated with the subjects are NOT experiential 211 13.2 and career-oriented activities. Activities during the flag ceremony, class activities are experiential and career368 23.1 oriented activities.
