Northeast Asian countries in textbooks in Vietnam

Tóm tắt

Among the countries in the world presented in high school textbooks and university coursebooks in Vietnam, the Northeast Asian countries always play an important
part. From the first lessons on history and geography of the sixth form program, the basic knowledge of history, geography, culture of such countries as China, Japan, and Korea is integrated into the general lessons. In the following years, the lessons that scrutinize every single country are gradually brought into the curriculum, providing students with more systematic knowledge.
On the basis of surveying and qualitative analysis some sets of high school textbook and university coursebook (chiefly in the branch of social sciences and humanity), this article concentrates on learning about the outlines in terms of amount of time and contents to present the Northeast Asian countries. Nevertheless, due to the fact that general education in Vietnam includes 12 forms, each of which has a range of textbooks and references, at the same time, it is also for the knowledge structure of each subject, and we are therefore only concerned with the main kinds of book, i.e.
History, then Geography and Literature. Similarly, the objects of our survey for the university, college, and technical secondary system also cover those kinds of textbook, coursebook associated with history, culture, group of people… Since the
range of object and study is considerably large, we shall therefore combine the surveying, describing and qualitative methods together in order to provide the fundamental knowledge about the Northeast Asian countries as it is being presented in the system of standard textbooks and coursebooks in Vietnam today.