Violence in School During Doi Moi
From: Anne Raffin
Date: 2009/2/12
Dear colleague,
I am putting an email from one of our PhD students, Nguyen Thi Nhu Trang, who is working on rising violence in schools in Hanoi since doi moi. Thank you in advance for helping her.
Anne Raffin, assistant professor,
National University of Singapore, Department of sociology.
Hello,
Could people suggest literature on the history of education from 1975 to 1986 and on violence in Vietnam since doi moi. My hypothesis for my PhD dissertation is that the socialist school was organized as an army unit and hence was able to control closely children and teenagers. Since doi moi, the disappearance of such model leads to violence among students within schools. I thank you in advance for your help. Regards, Nguyen Thi Nhu Trang
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From: Rob Hurle
Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM
Dear Anne and Trang,
You should be aware of the large 2-volume work put out by the
Ministry of Education:
Nguyễn Quang Kính, Đỗ Quốc Anh and Trần Minh Quốc, eds. Giáo dục Việt
Nam 1945-2005. 2 vols. Hanoi: NXB Chính trị Quốc gia, 2005.
Of course, it's not going to have much on violence, but it is the
"official" history and you may need it as background.
Rob Hurle
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Rob Hurle
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU
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From: Tobias RETTIG
Date: 2009/2/12
Hi,
For comparative reasons, it might sense to look at other socialist (and ex-socialist) countries, such as the former GDR.
Just an idea, and I cannot provide any literature.
Best,
Tobias
School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University
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From: dan hoang
Date: 2009/2/12
I don't know for sure, but I suggest you to go to the library of Vietnam's Research Institute for Education Sciences on 106 Tran Hung Dao str. if you are in Hanoi. There you may find some research papers related to the school violence. Also you have to ask for MOET's annual reports on implementing MOET's guidelines for school year targets and reports from Educational Departments of provinces where they may say about violence in Vietnam's schools today.
You can read some articles from Vietnam's Newspapers about violence stories have happened during Doimoi - I hope you can read Vietnamese.
Good luck!
Lieu
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From: Stephen Denney
Date: Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:04 PM
The Indcchina Archive at UC Berkeley had two office size file cabinet drawers, or about five linear feet, of materials on education in the DRV/SRV, mostly FBIS and JPRS translations from the Vietnam press, but also papers, journal articles and other materials, almost all in English. I don't know if the materials are still at UC Berkeley or have moved to the Vietnam Center of Texas Tech. I do recall reading translated articles in these files about this issue of violence in schools. As I recall, some of the most badly behaved kids were children of party cadres.
Steve Denney
library assistant
UC Berkeley
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From: DiGregorio, Michael
Date: 2009/2/12
I would not assume that "school violence" did not exist before doi moi. And I would question Trang's hypothesis about school discipline as being "military style." I'm not sure what kind of preliminary fieldwork Trang has done as part of her proposal, but the idea that all hell breaks loose after doi moi is an old one. Finding the underlying antecedents and causes, however, has not been as easy.
Mike
Michael DiGregorio
Program Officer for Media, Arts, Culture & Education
The Ford Foundation
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From: dan hoang
Date: 2009/2/12
agree Mike, but I think Trang has to make clear the definition of school violence so that we can see what kinds of violence have happened in the schools before and during doimoi. However, I think Trang wants to focus only on Doimoi when more violence have happened.
I don't know about military school style Trang mentions and I can say nothing about it if Trang thinks it existed in Vietnam.
Lieu
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From: Bill Hayton
Date: 2009/2/13
The NGO Plan International in Hanoi was doing work on preventing violence against pupils by teaching staff. They have a programme called Prevention of Physical and Emotional Abuse (or something similar). They've been working with educational psychologists and Public Security among others to try to 'update'/modernise/renovate methods of discipline in schools. They might have some leads.
Bill Hayton
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From: Dinh Lu Giang
Date: 2009/2/13
Hi
A lot of documents by searching with Google using "bạo lực học đường"; "bạo lực" + "trường", "bạo lực" + "giáo viên"; "bạo lực" + "sinh viên": "náo loạn trường học"; "côn đồ" + "trường học" ....
However, the idea "the socialist school was organized as an army unit and hence was able to control closely children and teenagers" is really surprising to me. I remember my childhood in a small school in Hue city. We had a lot of funs.
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Dinh Lu Giang,
PhD student on Viet - Khmer bilingualism and bilingual education
Dept. of Vietnamese Studies,
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University - HCMC - Vietnam
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From: Le Dong Phuong
Date: 2009/2/13
No
Bullying has been in Vietnamese (and american, german etc.) schools since there were schools. However the degree of bullying and its reflection in the news/studies varied.
I think there was a samll study on this topic last year at the Vietnam Institute for Education Sciences.
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From: Paul Horton
Date: 2009/2/25
Hi,
In response to Trang’s request for literature, I could suggest the following report which deals briefly with bullying in schools:
Michaelson, Reina (2004) Child Abuse in Viet Nam: Summary Report of the Concept, Nature and Extent of Child Abuse in Viet Nam. UNICEF Viet Nam, 31 January 2004.
I would also be interested in any more literature about violence in Vietnamese schools, as my PhD is focusing on bullying in Vietnamese lower secondary schools.
Best regards,
Paul Horton
Department of Child Studies
Linköping University
Sweden