Scientific Basis to Build Criteria for High School Students’ Kindness in Vietnam

Truong Thi Bich^1, , Dao Thi Oanh¹, Pham Thi Thu Huong² and Nguyen Thi The Binh³

¹Institute for Pedagogical Research, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

²Faculty of Philology, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

³Faculty of History, Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam

Cite this paper:
Truong Thi Bich, Dao Thi Oanh, Pham Thi Thu Huong and Nguyen Thi The Binh. Scientific Basis to Build Criteria for High School Students’ Kindness in Vietnam. American Journal of Educational Research. 2018; 6(6):822-827. doi: 10.12691/education-6-6-35

Abstract

Kindness is a core value playing as a foundation for the educating of human’s other moral qualities. Vietnam’s general education program continues its focus on developing traditional values and national ethics, human’s cultural elite to meet the basic and modern requirements in a suitable way for students’ ages and psychology. Therefore, “kindness” is necessary to be formed and developed in Vietnamese students. Plus, the research on building kindness criteria framework to serve practical education and the evaluation of educating kindness is very important. Based on the results of theoretical and practical researches on kindness, expression of kindness in relationships between people, the article proposes a criteria framework for Vietnamese high school students’ kindness nowadays. The framework includes five groups of characteristic: “Loving and sharing”; "Sympathy and mercy"; "Tolerance and forgiveness"; “Solidarity and having responsibility”; “gratefulness and respect” with 25 equivalent behaviors. That will be a basis for the education and self-education, evaluation and self-evaluation of results of educating kindness for high school students to meet the current social context.

Keywords:
kindness criteria high school students kindness criteria educating kindness in schools

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