Developing creative education to build Hanoi as a Creative City
anoi is especially interested in building creative human resources and one of the optimal solutions is to build a creative education, forming generations of creative citizens.
A large number of managers, experts, educational and cultural people participated in the Conference. (Photo: Dinh Thuan/VNA)
After 3 years of becoming a Creative City, Hanoi is accelerating the process of realizing initiatives committed to UNESCO, with special attention to building creative human resources.
One of the optimal solutions set by the city is to build an innovative education and form generations of creative, global citizens.
The Workshop on Developing Creative Education in the Strategy of Building Hanoi into a Creative City” organized by the Propaganda Department of the Hanoi Party Committee on December 20 posed the issue of developing creative environments, systems and systems. Innovative education ecology to meet the requirements of reality helps Hanoi build and maintain the Creative City brand.
A place to nurture and nurture creativity
At Newton 5 Primary and Secondary School, there is a special creative educational model, which aims to create open spaces to stimulate the brain and observation of children in the process of acquiring knowledge. That is the form of organization “Classroom without tables and chairs,” transcending the limit of 4 walls, liberating teachers by structural constraints.
Outdoor math and measurement class, creating non-stop activities, learners discover knowledge on their own, teachers are facilitators and guides.
English-Science class with a field trip outside the school garden, or experience a day of communicating with foreign tourists…
Vice Principal Tran Thanh Hien said that teachers can come up with ideas suitable for the topic of the week, then choose the classroom space.
The main goal is to change the learning state and emotions for students, students can liberate themselves behind four familiar walls, learn-experience-experience, from which teachers can differentiate chemistry. students based on the study skills that students demonstrate in the “Classroom without furniture.”
In recent times, Hanoi has formed and has creative educational elements, such as STEM education (science, technology, engineering, math), and creative experiential education in spaces. culture, science and technology.
The social community has recognized many initiatives of Hanoi high school students, from improving learning methods (redrawing the periodic system of chemical elements, software to remind the study timetable .. .), improving labor tools (robots, automatic irrigation systems in growing vegetables…), environmental research (measurement of water pollution concentration in West Lake, rainwater measurement…).
In Hanoi, many universities have established STEM research groups, selecting and investing in STEM career training.
Hanoi students love scientific research
In fact, creative education is considered the inevitable trend of education of the present and the future. Because creativity promotes learning in many aspects, nurturing intelligence and emotions, creative education is the key to development in the new era.
Leaders of the Propaganda Department of the Hanoi Party Committee spoke at the conference. (Photo: Dinh Thuan/VNA)
According to Dr. Nguyen Trong Hung, Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, creative education is an activity that helps learners nurture their spirit, ideas and creative capacity, is the main way to create creative people. , thereby promoting the development of society, turning it into a creative society.
However, in the process of forming and developing the educational ecosystem towards the development of creative capacity in the capital, although the factors have been formed, there are still many subjects and factors lacking. Therefore, Hanoi needs to have an innovative education program throughout high schools.
Forming an innovative education ecosystem
Creative and innovative education is one of the three fundamental groups of policies focused on implementing by Hanoi, in order to realize the goal of developing a Creative City, turning Hanoi into one of the centers of the literary industry. growth of the country, towards the position of being an important creative capital of the region and Asia.
Not only towards the goal of developing a Creative City, but the development of creative education also creates high-quality and comprehensive human resources in the fields of economy, culture, society… comprehensive and sustainable development strategy of the capital.
Some experts also believe that building smart schools is one of the solutions to develop Hanoi’s education towards modernity, creativity and international integration.
According to Dr. Nguyen Minh Tuan, Vietnam Institute of Educational Sciences, building smart schools will help train workers with full qualities and capabilities to meet the requirements of socio-economic development. of the city, bringing city education to meet new requirements.
Building a smart school requires a revolutionary innovation in terms of setting educational goals, educational organization methods, school characters, teaching-education process as well as educational process. Education Management.
Ms. Tran Thi Ngoc Han, Representative of UNESCO Office in Hanoi, said that Vietnam, with its great potential for art, creativity and culture, is in the right moment to develop innovative educational models. integrative creation, which will be instrumental for the development of the country’s cultural, creative and other industries.
In addition to creative education in schools, managers at all levels can use the trait to facilitate the integration of cultural, creative aspects into education through out-of-home activities. school.
Head of the Propaganda Department of Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Doan Toan affirmed that in order to realize the vision of “Creative Capital” of Southeast Asia, Hanoi has identified three main pillars of urban regeneration and development on the basis of taking culture as the foundation; innovative education network with a preference for the arts and sciences; the overall chain of events, fairs, exhibitions and cultural festivals as well as the building and promotion of the Creative City brand.
The results of today’s workshop will be the theoretical as well as practical basis to continue to complete the consultation to build the Project on “Development of creative education in the capital area – Vision to 2030”. “Contributing effectively to the implementation of Program No. 06-CTr/TU of the Hanoi Party Committee on “Developing culture, improving the quality of human resources, building elegant and civilized Hanoi people”, period 2021-2025″ in Hanoi capital.
Đinh Thuận (TTXVN)