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number: /2021
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Governance is essential in the development of a public university. In university governance, the administrator plays a pivotal role. If governance is the factor that contributes to the success of a university, the administrator must be the one who takes a decisive role in the success of all governing activities. In the context of our country’s higher education system, in which fundamental changes are taking place, the university administrators are required to possess certain qualities and competencies. They need to be fully fostered to obtain those qualities and competencies.
number: /2021
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Primary school students of ethnic minorities in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam have unfavorable economic and social conditions, which has a huge impact on the quality of education in these areas, especially life skills education. Based on this proposition, the author has identified teachers’ viewpoints on the need of educating life skills for this target group of students and difficulties in implementing life skills education. Survey tools used in this research include questionnaires and interviews, direct observation with 218 teachers in Thai Nguyen, Bac Kan, Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lang Son, Dien Bien, and Lai Chau provinces. The survey results show that most teachers are aware of the need to implement life skills education and have regularly implemented life skills education for ethnic minority primary school students in the northern mountainous areas, albeit with limited effectiveness. At the same time, the study also shows that the main difficulty preventing teachers in this area from implementing life skills education for students is that students’ parents are unaware of the role of life skills education and that schools focus too much on teaching the Vietnamese language and Mathematics to students, so they have not paid enough attention to the methods and forms of organizing life skills education. From this research, we propose a group of measures to organize and replicate the topics on life skills education for teachers in the regions to raise awareness about the use of diverse methods and forms of organizing life skills education in daily teaching activities. In addition, we also propose groups of measures to promote coordination between schools, families and social communities to raise awareness about the role of life skills education for ethnic minority students in the northern mountainous areas of Vietnam.
number: /2021
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This paper reports findings from a study conducted to identify university preparation of transferrable skills in an undergraduate course at a Vietnamese university. The paper first reviews the concept of transferrable skills and relevant literature on the development of transferrable skills both in international and Vietnamese higher education context. It then outlines the data collection instruments and the data collection procedure, from which insights into transferable skills development at the specified institution were drawn. The findings reveal that despite clearly articulating learning and skillset outcomes, the university under investigation adopted an isolated ad hoc approach and did not provide a range of opportunities and contexts for its students to master the transferable skills expected. The paper highlights the importance of adjusting teaching and learning practices in a way that students can develop useful skills for their personal, academic, and professional life.
number: /2021
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The current study was conducted to investigate high school EFL teachers’ perceptions towards the role of content schema activation that is focused on the pre-reading stage of their students’ reading comprehension ability and to find out the most common instructional strategies EFL teachers use to foster schema activation in the EFL classroom and gain insights into possible difficulties EFL teachers face when activating schemata in the reading lessons. The participants included 77 EFL high school teachers in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. To collect the data, a 22-item questionnaire and the semistructured interview on the teachers’ perceptions were carried out. The findings showed that although the participants had a positive perception towards the role of schema activation in English reading comprehension, they confirmed instructional strategies were not often used to activate students’ schemata in English reading comprehension. In addition, the participants tend to use more simple strategies, such as questioning, brainstorming, discussion and using audiovisual aids than complex strategies, Know - Want to know - Learned chart, semantic mapping, and anticipation guide, in order to activate students’ schemata. Most possible difficulties in activating students’ schemata in English reading comprehension were also revealed, such as the students’ limited linguistic knowledge, unfamiliar reading text’s topics, limited time for teaching reading, time-consuming work in designing the effective and appropriate schema activation activities, and the large classes. Pedagogical implications and suggestions for further research are presented based on these findings.
number: /2021
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The acceleration of all systems is the main characteristic of life in the 21st century, including in the economic field. The emergence of digitalization which is often associated with neo-capitalism has made practitioners in the Civic Economy need to strengthen their existence. Especially in the field of engaging to solve economic issues in society by using national values. It requires comprehensive skills or commonly known as transferable skills. In this study, the scope used is the practice of the economy in Indonesia with the perspective of the emergence of social entrepreneurship trends that are promoted by youth to run a business and strengthen social relations simultaneously. Based on the analysis of literacy studies, it was found that the existence of social entrepreneurship in Indonesia in building transferable skills is: 1) becoming a non-formal education for youth in the economic and social fields; 2) encouraging the creation of a multitalented generation, and 3) have the opportunity to become a role model for the implementation of Economy based on Pancasila values. However, weaknesses in the regeneration process and organizational development management are still obstacles that must be addressed immediately so that existing opportunities can be optimally fulfilled
number: /2021
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Past research has reported that training on other aspects affected the learner’s language complexity but did not substantially promote accuracy or the results were too ambiguous to determine if accuracy was also improved (Ellis, 1987; Crookes, 1989; Wigglesworth, 1997). This study set out to determine if this is also the case for speed reading courses, in which EFL learners are trained to improve their reading fluency. An experiment was conducted on university students in order to see if their language knowledge accuracy would improve when their reading fluency developed. During the experiment, two treatment groups and two control groups were following an English program at university while the treatment groups also followed a speed reading course, which lasted two months. A set of language memory span tests were given before and after the treatment. The results indicated that although improvement in reading fluency facilitates language complexity, it does not assist language accuracy development to a remarkable degree.
number: /2021
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The education process of the 21st century has been heavily impacted upon by digital technology. This impact has culminated in the transformation of pedagogy and learning through the penetration of digital technology into the social, political and economic fabric of society. Learning is now more strategic with a greater emphasis on learner-centred learning and virtual collaboration, whereby the role of the teacher has changed to a facilitator of learning, rather than the fountain of knowledge. This paradigmatic shift in approach responds to the need for life-long learning whereby, in a freelance economy, individuals will be expected to engage in working landscapes requiring a broad range of skill sets, including the soft skills. A freelance economy encourages individuals, through greater levels of autonomy, to collaborate and engage in enhanced decision-making and, as a result, be positioned to participate in the improvement of society through the use of flexible learning structures supported by digital technologies. This expectation, therefore, impacts educational institutions across sectors, requiring them to provide learners with the skills necessary to continue their learning journeys well beyond their formal education. In response to this pedagogical shift, this paper provides insights into the wide scope of digital technology use for 21st century learning to date. It provides three exemplars that encompass: 1) School curriculum implementation; 2) Enhancing languages education and 3) Use of Zoom for online collaboration. All three address the challenges faced in implementation, in addition to outlining the associated expectations, strategies and support mechanisms.
number: /2021
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The Covid-19 pandemic has hit Indonesia since March 2020 and changed various order of community life. Various efforts have been made to tackle the transmission of this pandemic, including physical distance and lockdown. Academic institutions changed their learning activities, from face-to-face learning to online learning by using technology. Referring to the massive use of technology in the pandemic, digital literacy is needed for all levels of education. The purpose of this article is to describe the policy of digital literacy programs in Indonesia; the government’s role during a pandemic in education sector; and the implementation of digital literacy during the pandemic. The study of these three topics are useful for understanding how to increase utilization of digital literacy, and the possibility to develop digital citizenship programs to counterbalance unexpected impact of digital information.
number: /2021
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Self-study is crucial in the professional development of teachers to meet all the educational requirements. The context of educational reform in Vietnam has heightened the need for research about teachers’ self-study habits. To examine current self-study habits of teachers as well as proposing some appropriate solutions, over 50 teachers, librarians and school administrators have been invited to interview, group discussions and fill in a questionnaire. The findings suggest that not only schools need to change to promote the movement of teachers’ self-study but also teachers themselves need to plan and carry out self-study actively with stronger determination to meet the requirements of the new curriculum
number: /2020
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In the context of rapid and complex changes in the world, globalization and international integration has become an inevitable trend. The impact of the 4th industrial revolution has been changing the structure of education level of human resources, requiring workers to be regularly trained, updated with new knowledge and skills. The learning society becomes a new educational model. The paper analyzes the relationship between streaming and articulation in education with lifelong learning and learning society, thereby proposing some solutions to create opportunities for access to education and lifelong learning for all people appropriate to the individual’s capacity and the human resource development needs of the society