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Improving Teacher Education Curriculum in Vietnam

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The requirement of the fourth Industrial Revolution and reforming general education curriculum is to improve the quality of the teacher education curriculum. This chapter poses some issues related to the curriculum development in Vietnam such as curriculum approach, teacher education model, future teacher competencies, barriers in developing the curriculum, limitations of the system of the teacher education institutions, and implications for a better curriculum. Because of the trend of globalization, teacher education institutions need to train teachers to have the ability to develop learner competencies. In other words, the teacher education curriculum would play an important role in the context of educational reforms to meet the requirements of future human resources. This chapter also focusses on the competence-based approach in improving teacher education programs and proposes some strategies for changing teacher education philosophy, enhancing training objectives and contents of the teacher education curriculum so that it could meet the new demand of the teacher labour market.

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This research was funded by the project of the Ministry of Education and Training with the study “Research on the appropriateness of teaching profession of students at the teacher education institutions in Vietnam”, code B2021-TNA-09. We thank our colleagues from Hue University of Education who provided insight and expertise that greatly assisted the research as well as commented to improve the manuscript of this chapter.

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Nguyen, N.D., Pham, Q.H. (2022). Improving Teacher Education Curriculum in Vietnam. In: Khine, M.S., Liu, Y. (eds) Handbook of Research on Teacher Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9785-2_31

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