Global citizenship education through curriculums of some subjects in Vietnamese primary schools

Global citizenship education through curriculums of some subjects in Vietnamese primary schools

Luong Viet Thai thailv@vnies.edu.vn The Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences
Nguyen Tuyet Nga ngant@vnies.edu.vn The Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences
Nguyen Hong Lien liennh@vnies.edu.vn The Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences
Summary: 
Global citizenship education is becoming one of the strategies of education development in particular and human resource development in general. In this trend, Vietnam P-12 National Curriculum (issued 2018) has focused on educational objectives about sustainable and students’ competency development of UNESCO and Vietnam comprehensive education innovation. This article points out and analyzes opportunities for global citizenship education in the primary written curriculum of Sciences, History and Geography subjects. In addition, challenges, which faced by schools when implementing global citizenship education, are shown in this paper. Based on the advantages and disadvantages, the authors gave some recommendations to enhance the effectiveness of global citizenship education
Keywords: 
Global citizen
global citizenship education
primary school
Sciences
History and Geography subjects
Opportunity
Challenge
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