http://www.mediaenterprise.co.uk/2009/12/08/what-is-education/ Enterprising information for media students Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:00:26 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.mediaenterprise.co.uk/2009/12/08/what-is-education/comment-page-1/#comment-1126 Hai Nguyen Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:21:34 +0000 http://www.mediaenterprise.co.uk/?p=304#comment-1126 Actually in my memory, Vietnamese old education system (at my time) wasn't that "creative" in all meaning. I can't recall any memory about "creativity" activities at school that time. We had few lessons in basic music (but no practice), few lessons in drawing (also no practice). I remember I joined a group of "poem" - surprised isn't it :)- But the new education system has more specified art areas and creative fields, I think. I saw my nieces (6 year old) started learning drawing, dancing, singing, making stuffs by herself, and my nephew (11 year old) studies draw on computer, he also has his creative group to do stuffs together. There are quite many international schools in Vietnam nowadays. Do hope our young generation will have better and more creative education system. It will be a long way to go for Vietnamese, I think. We still have to go abroad for higher level of education as you see. Actually in my memory, Vietnamese old education system (at my time) wasn’t that “creative” in all meaning. I can’t recall any memory about “creativity” activities at school that time. We had few lessons in basic music (but no practice), few lessons in drawing (also no practice). I remember I joined a group of “poem” – surprised isn’t it :)- But the new education system has more specified art areas and creative fields, I think. I saw my nieces (6 year old) started learning drawing, dancing, singing, making stuffs by herself, and my nephew (11 year old) studies draw on computer, he also has his creative group to do stuffs together. There are quite many international schools in Vietnam nowadays. Do hope our young generation will have better and more creative education system. It will be a long way to go for Vietnamese, I think. We still have to go abroad for higher level of education as you see.

]]> http://www.mediaenterprise.co.uk/2009/12/08/what-is-education/comment-page-1/#comment-1125 Karen Patel Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:05:46 +0000 http://www.mediaenterprise.co.uk/?p=304#comment-1125 It's interesting to know a little about your own background Hai and I agree with you. I also see education as structured learning which takes place (usually) within establishments. I think some of our classmates did not have a very fulfilling experience at school due to the lack of flexibility in teaching, and that has led them to believe that more informal structures are also seen as education. I am interested to learn about the amount of creativity in the National Curriculum. When I was at school we were allowed a certain amount of creativity - especially in Drama, Graphic Design and Communication Studies. However, those were the only three subjects (out of 10) that allowed us to be creative. Were you allowed to be creative during school in Vietnam? It’s interesting to know a little about your own background Hai and I agree with you. I also see education as structured learning which takes place (usually) within establishments. I think some of our classmates did not have a very fulfilling experience at school due to the lack of flexibility in teaching, and that has led them to believe that more informal structures are also seen as education. I am interested to learn about the amount of creativity in the National Curriculum. When I was at school we were allowed a certain amount of creativity – especially in Drama, Graphic Design and Communication Studies. However, those were the only three subjects (out of 10) that allowed us to be creative. Were you allowed to be creative during school in Vietnam?

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