Le Quan Tan, Head of the Secondary Education Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET), discussed putting information about Hoang Sa (Paracel) in Da Nang city and Truong Sa (Spratlys) in Khanh Hoa province into school curriculums.
Tan said that the Khanh Hoa and Da Nang education and training departments reported on possible contents for Truong Sa and Hoang Sa lessons to the MOET in 2005. The syllabuses are being checked and updated with new information.
How have the syllabuses about local history and geography teaching been designed?
In 2008, MOET released a document clearly stipulating the syllabuses on teaching local issues applied for secondary and high schools as of the 2008-2009 school year.
We asked localities to put the contents into the curriculums and respect the truth in teaching students.
Regarding knowledge of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, we have the responsibility of teaching students consciousness of national sovereignty, territory and territorial waters.
Not only Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, but awareness of Bach Long Vi in Hai Phong city and Co To in Quang Ninh province, also both islands of Vietnam, have also been taught in local schools in lessons about local history and geography.
We are planning to renovate the curriculums and textbooks for general education. Do you think that we need to teach students nationwide about Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, not only students in Da Nang or Khanh Hoa?
All history and geography textbooks affirm Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa and Hoang Sa. In the geography curriculums for secondary and high schools, there is information about borders and national sovereignty. However, geography and history are two fields which always need to be updated with new information.
How has the compilation and assessment of the textbooks been going?
It is really hard work. A lot of questions have arisen: Who can compile the lessons in the most honest, shortest and easiest way to understand? Who can collect materials and assess the materials? We need a professional council in charge of undertaking the works.
It is necessary to gather the most outstanding experts, scientists, culturists, artists and artisans who have deep knowledge of localities to compile and check the syllabuses on local issues in teaching.
Tan said that the Khanh Hoa and Da Nang education and training departments reported on possible contents for Truong Sa and Hoang Sa lessons to the MOET in 2005. The syllabuses are being checked and updated with new information.
How have the syllabuses about local history and geography teaching been designed?
In 2008, MOET released a document clearly stipulating the syllabuses on teaching local issues applied for secondary and high schools as of the 2008-2009 school year.
We asked localities to put the contents into the curriculums and respect the truth in teaching students.
Regarding knowledge of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, we have the responsibility of teaching students consciousness of national sovereignty, territory and territorial waters.
Not only Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, but awareness of Bach Long Vi in Hai Phong city and Co To in Quang Ninh province, also both islands of Vietnam, have also been taught in local schools in lessons about local history and geography.
We are planning to renovate the curriculums and textbooks for general education. Do you think that we need to teach students nationwide about Hoang Sa and Truong Sa, not only students in Da Nang or Khanh Hoa?
All history and geography textbooks affirm Vietnam’s sovereignty of Truong Sa and Hoang Sa. In the geography curriculums for secondary and high schools, there is information about borders and national sovereignty. However, geography and history are two fields which always need to be updated with new information.
How has the compilation and assessment of the textbooks been going?
It is really hard work. A lot of questions have arisen: Who can compile the lessons in the most honest, shortest and easiest way to understand? Who can collect materials and assess the materials? We need a professional council in charge of undertaking the works.
It is necessary to gather the most outstanding experts, scientists, culturists, artists and artisans who have deep knowledge of localities to compile and check the syllabuses on local issues in teaching.
Duong Trung Quoc, historian: I applaud the decision by Da Nang city’s People’s Committee to put lessons about Hoang Sa and Truong Sa into school curriculums.
I think that lessons about Truong Sa and Sa should be put into the curriculums of not only schools in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa but schools across the country.
I think that lessons about Truong Sa and Sa should be put into the curriculums of not only schools in Da Nang and Khanh Hoa but schools across the country.
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