This morning, September 16, Professor Ho Ngoc Dai organized the book launch "Modern Education" on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of his journey of researching, experimenting and developing educational technology.
“During my doctoral studies in the Soviet Union, my professor asked me to research a method for teaching multiplication to elementary school students. I had to research many documents, meet the world's leading mathematics professors at that time, and was surprised to wonder: why is it so complicated to teach multiplication to elementary school students? And it took me two years to research and experiment on this topic,” Professor Ho Ngoc Dai shared this morning, September 16, at the launch event. Modern Education books – his latest book.
According to Professor Ho Ngoc Dai, it was the process of studying and researching in the Soviet Union that helped me understand what scientific research really means when every stage in education, even the smallest, is meticulously and carefully researched.
That has become the consistent viewpoint and ideology of Professor Ho Ngoc Dai when he always affirms: the pedagogical capacity of a teacher does not only develop based on experience, making it necessary to have good teachers for students to learn well, but education must be technologically advanced, teachers must teach according to scientific pedagogical methods and therefore, any teacher can teach good students.
Professor Ho Ngoc Dai said that when he was researching and experimenting with educational technology in the Soviet Union, his professor once said that it would take 50 years for people to understand and accept his innovations. When he returned to Vietnam, the late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong and the late General Secretary Le Duan also commented that his educational ideas were too new, too different from tradition, and therefore, it would take several decades for them to be accepted.
Event book launch “Modern education” is also the way Professor Ho Ngoc Dai marks his 45-year journey of research, experimentation and development. educational technology His school, started when the Experimental School on Lieu Giai Street (Hanoi) recruited the first batch of students for the 1978-1979 school year with only one grade: first grade.
The book is designed compactly like a notebook with concise writing style, short sentences, and certainty in each word, encapsulating his thoughts and views on educational philosophy and educational technology - the results of his research and experiments.
Part one of the book deals with history and philosophy with concise writing, closely arguing each concept, thereby pointing out the philosophy of education as a truth with the inevitable development of human history. Professor Ho Ngoc Dai affirmed: children are born by themselves, the greatest needs and interests of modern children are to grow up naturally, develop naturally, self-study to develop themselves and become unique, special, and unique individuals.
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From the philosophical conclusion about children's development, in part two, Professor Ho Ngoc Dai affirmed that modern education must operate in the direction of the individual category. Educational innovation is that teachers design, students construct, students themselves find new knowledge through specific activities, teachers only have the role of guidance, not a lecturer who imparts existing knowledge. Teachers design programs, textbooks, design each task of children during class. Students themselves find knowledge after doing the tasks, teachers do not give children ready-made products, forcing them to accept.
The book "Modern Education" by Professor Ho Ngoc Dai. (Photo: Pham Mai/Vietnam+)
It can be seen that Professor Ho Ngoc Dai's viewpoints, thoughts, and educational philosophy on education that he experimented with 45 years ago are also the thoughts and viewpoints of the fundamental and comprehensive innovation that the education and training sector is implementing in schools according to the 2018 general education program.
However, his ideas about educational technology are still controversial, from the implementation process to the method. According to Professor Ho Ngoc Dai, the teacher's "design" must be based on modern, systematic scientific research, following educational technology with specific implementation steps.
“Teaching is like any other profession, it is practiced through operations. Modern pedagogy is designed for children to perform tasks by themselves, through a linear chain of operations. Since it is an operation, anyone can do it, anyone can do it like anyone else, children do it like adults do it,” Professor Ho Ngoc Dai wrote.
Sharing about the 45 ups and downs of educational technology, when it was repeatedly replicated across the country, then returned to its original scale: teaching at the Experimental School, Professor Ho Ngoc Dai still appeared very optimistic and confident, as he once boldly affirmed: If Vietnamese education wants to develop, it must certainly go through a bridge, that bridge is named after Ho Ngoc Dai.
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