Creative Thinking Education for Vietnamese Primary Students

Ngô Vũ Thu Hằng^1,

¹Faculty of Primary Education – Hanoi University of Education, 136 Xuân Thuỷ, Cầu Giấy, Hà Nội, Việt Nam

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Ngô Vũ Thu Hằng. Creative Thinking Education for Vietnamese Primary Students. American Journal of Educational Research. 2023; 11(9):539-544. doi: 10.12691/education-11-9-1

Abstract

This paper presents some theoretical knowledge about creative thinking education for primary students in Vietnam. It provides some specific suggestions on learning tasks and guidance on the application of constructivist teaching roles that Vietnamese teachers can apply to classroom practices to help develop creative thinking in primary students, thereby contributing to the effective implementation of the new General Education Program 2018. This paper suggests future research directions for the enactment of suggested creative learning tasks within competence-based lessons and evaluates their effectiveness in helping students develop creative thinking, so that appropriate recommendations for creative thinking education can be produced in accordance with the characteristics of primary teachers and students in Vietnam.

Keywords:
creative thinking competence education primary students learning tasks

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