scholarly journals What Citizenship for What Transition?: Contradictions, Ambivalence, and Promises in Post-Socialist Citizenship Education in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
AISDL
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
Transitional Society ◽  
Good Citizenship

In 1986, the Communist Party of Vietnam officially approved reform policies known as đổi mới (doi moi) which transformed the country from a centrally-planned to a market-oriented economy. Since then, as Vietnam has been integrating into the global economy, the transitional society has become more open and diverse. The transformations have apparently impacted the ways in which citizenship has been understood and practiced in Vietnam. This study specifically investigates changes in state visions of citizenship as reflected in educational discourses. In addition, it examines teachers’ interpretations of good citizenship and their experiences of teaching citizenship in Vietnam’s schools.

scholarly journals Economics and the civic mission of social studies education: Two critiques of neoclassicism

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin C Adams
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Social Studies Education ◽  
State Standards ◽  
Democratic Society ◽  
Content Standards ◽  
Neoclassical Theory ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
K 12

This article examines the theoretical assumptions underlying K-12 economic curriculum and the consequences of this curriculum for citizenship education and democracy. Specifically, the article discusses scholarship related to the critique of neoclassic economic theory’s role in influencing the Voluntary National Content Standards in Economics and the trickle-down effects into state standards and textbooks. From the literature, the author uncovers two main critiques of neoclassicism: that neoclassic theory is unrealistic and impersonal. Neoclassic theory has enormous consequences for the civic mission of social studies. The author investigates the extent to which neoclassical theory makes for good citizenship and is desirable for a democratic society.

scholarly journals Educating in Respect: Against Neutral Discourse as a Norm for Respectful Classroom Discussion

Philosophy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-210
Author(s):  
Christina Easton
Keyword(s):  
Education Policy ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Classroom Discussion ◽  
Epistemic Virtue ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Mutual Respect ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
Motivating Reasons

AbstractSince 2014, British schools have been required to ‘actively promote’ the value of ‘mutual respect’ to the children in their care. This is relatively unproblematic: liberals are agreed that good citizenship education will involve teaching mutual respect. However, there is disagreement over how ‘respect’ should be understood and what it should imply for norms of respectful classroom discussion. Some political liberals have indicated that when engaging in discussion in the classroom, students should provide only neutral reasons to defend their views. This paper provides a number of arguments against this claim. For example, I argue that this norm relies on a distorted understanding of what it is to respect others and that it stifles the development of civic and epistemic virtue in the next generation of citizens. Even from within the perspective of political liberalism, there are good reasons to favour critical discussion of non-neutral reasons. Education policy should therefore accord greater priority to discussion of students’ actual motivating reasons than to discussion constrained by a norm of neutral discourse.

“Reform and Openness”: Why China's Economic Reforms Have Delayed Democracy

2002 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary E. Gallagher
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
High Growth ◽  
Political Liberalization ◽  
Rapid Economic Growth ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Rapid Pace ◽  
East Asian Economies

Most theories that seek to explain democratization look to changes in the economy as the precursor to significant political liberalization, locating the main causal factor in either severe economic crisis or rapid economic growth. In the Chinese context, by contrast, the Communist Party has extricated itself from the socialist social contract with the urban working class without losing its grip on political power. Moreover, China has maintained a rapid pace of economic growth for over twenty-five years without significant political liberalization. Comparative analysis of China's post-1978 reform policies yields insights both across types of socialist transition, comparing China with Eastern Europe and Russia, and across time, comparing China with other high-growth East Asian economies. A key factor in China's ability to reform the economy without sacrificing political control is the timing and sequencing of its foreign direct investment (FDl) liberalization. There are two key variables that are important to this comparative analysis: China's pattern of ownership diversification and China's mode of integration into the global economy. The article relates these two variables to the success of economic change without political liberalization, in particular, how FDI liberalization has affected relations between workers and the ruling Communist Party. “Reform and openness” in this context resulted in a strengthened Chinese state, a weakened civil society (especially labor), and a delay in political liberalization.

scholarly journals Shopping to save the world? Reclaiming global citizenship within Irish universities

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-101
Author(s):  
Niamh Gaynor
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Global Inequality ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
Transformative Action ◽  
Educational Component

Patterns and causes of poverty and underdevelopment have shifted considerably over the last two decades. Growing global inequality within and between nations is now inextricably linked to both the exigencies and impacts of the global economy. In this article I argue that our universities, while developing students’ core skills and competencies to work within this global economy, fall short in providing them with the contextual competencies to critically engage with the multi-faceted challenges posed by it. In other words, our universities are failing to produce critically engaged global citizens. As universities opt to leave this contextual educational component to NGOs within the development sector – a sector with its own challenges and limitations – I go on to argue that global citizenship education as popularly promoted within this sector is also limited. In equating global citizenship and activism with consumerism, it depoliticises and individualises acts of engagement, thereby eroding the potential for collective, transformative action. I conclude by urging that, as teachers, mentors and public sociologists, we reclaim global citizenship as a collective project engaged in the political struggle for meaning and ‘truth’ within our classrooms and institutions.

scholarly journals Homeschooling and the Redefinition of Citizenship

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bruce Arai
Keyword(s):  
Citizenship Education ◽  
General Issue ◽  
The Past ◽  
Good Citizenship ◽  
At Home

Homeschooling has grown considerably in many countries over the past two or three decades. To date, most research has focused either on comparisons between schooled and homeschooled children, or on finding out why parents choose to educate their children at home. There has been little consideration of the importance of homeschooling for the more general issue of citizenship, and whether people can be good citizens without going to school. This paper reviews the research on homeschooling, as well as the major objections to it, and frames these debates within the broader issues of citizenship and citizenship education. The paper shows that homeschoolers are carving out a different but equally valid understanding of citizenship and that policies which encourage a diversity of understandings of good citizenship should form the basis citizenship education both for schools and homeschoolers.

scholarly journals Global citizenship education within a context of accountability and 21st century skills: The case of Olympus High School

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marzia Cozzolino DiCicco
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Citizenship ◽  
Reform Process ◽  
Public High School ◽  
Global Citizenship Education ◽  
Global Citizens ◽  
School Year

This article addresses the present gap in empirical research on the possibilities and challenges of global citizenship education in U.S. public schools by presenting findings from a five-year, ethnographic case study. The setting for this study is Olympus High School, a small, suburban public high school in Pennsylvania. Beginning in the 2009–2010 school year, Olympus undertook a reform initiative to integrate teaching about the world into its curricular offerings. Although Olympus is just one case, the story of Olympus’s reform process reveals the inherent tension between preparing students to be knowledge workers in the global economy and preparing them to be active participants in global civil society. It also illustrates how test-based accountability and alignment to standards can impede efforts to broaden the curriculum in the interest of developing knowledgeable, responsible, and critically minded global citizens.  

scholarly journals Resilience of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Authoritarian Regime since Đổi Mới

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hai Hong Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
The World

Unlike communist parties in the former Soviet Union and Eastern and Central Europe, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has overcome crises to remain in power for the last 30 years and will most likely continue ruling in the coming decades. Strategies and tactics undertaken by the CPV are found to be identical to those canvassed in the extant literature on the durability of authoritarian regimes around the world. The present paper argues that the CPV's regime has been resilient thus far because it has successfully restored and maintained public trust, effectively constrained its opposition at home, and cleverly reduced external pressures. To support this argument, the analysis electively focuses on four aspects: (1) economic performance, (2) political flexibility, (3) repression of the opposition, and (4) expansion of international relations.

scholarly journals Legal framework for environmental impact assessment in Vietnam: the challenges between the regulations and practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 164 ◽  
pp. 11008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minh Tuyen Pham ◽  
Nguyen Khanh Bui ◽  
Roman Puzirevsky
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Resource Base ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Doi Moi ◽  
Natural Resource Base

After 30 years of economic reforms since the launch of Đổi Mới in 1986, Vietnam has recorded significant and historic achievements. From a poor, war-ravaged, centrally planned economy, which was closed off from much of the outside world, Vietnam has become a middle-income country with a dynamic market economy that is deeply integrated into the global economy. But growth has to a large extent come at the cost of the environment. Vietnam’s greenhouse gas emissions have grown the fastest in the region, while the environmental quality of its air, land, and water has deteriorated considerably. Water and air pollution have reached serious levels, especially near Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, posing major health risks. As the most important environmental management tool, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is recognized by Vietnamese Government and international organizations in the management of the impacts of future development on the country’s natural resource base. EIA is the important Chapter of Law on environmental protection 2014 of Vietnam (which was passed by the 13 National Assembly at the 7th session on June 23, 2014). This article argue that while significant improvements have been achieved in the EIA legal framework, the challenges remains between the EIA regulations and practice. This article contend that the current EIA legal framework is poor and facing with challenges and that future developments of the EIA regulations in Vietnam should focus not only on legislative documents but also on improving capacity of EIA practitioners with strictly sanctions.

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