CONCEPTION OF TEXTBOOK REORIENTATION AND MODERNISATION IN VIETNAM AFTER 2015

Abstract

In Vietnam textbooks, one of the most important instruments of organizing teaching and learning activities at schools are observed. They serve as a tool and a tutor, a guidebook and a gauge in the school classrooms and play an important role in making the leap from teacher’s intentions and plans to the classroom activities, by making lesson content available, organizing it, and setting out learning tasks in a form designed to be appealing to students. Vietnam is now intensively preparing to undertake a school reform after 2015 and pays great attention to innovate and modernize the school curriculum and textbooks. To design and development new school textbooks with high quality, at the moment educational managers and scientist, textbook writers and
publishers are trying the best to reorient and modernize textbooks in Vietnam after 2015 so that new textbooks can effectively support the achievement of the main goals of the school education reform in Vietnam after 2015. In this context, in the paper, the main issues of reorienting and modernizing textbooks in Vietnam after 2015 as well as the key standards and the basic criteria for the new textbook revision and modernization will be focused and presented.