This book gathers a diverse set of empirical research chapters from practitioners in the higher education sector in Vietnam to explore the effects of higher education reform on university learning and teaching from the point of view of the classroom educators. Through action research, reflective practice, and other qualitative methods, the book investigates the transformations of learning and teaching practice from top-down to bottom-up, teacher-centred to student-centred, curriculum-oriented to skills-based, institutionally directed to partner integrated, and co-designed approaches. In doing so, the book challenges a rethinking of Vietnamese higher education. It reveals the ingredients for transformative education and calls for educators to be empowered with support, resources, and trust. Drawing on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds about Vietnam's university reforms, it is highly relevant to social anthropologists, educational specialists, and policymakers working in higher education reform, not only in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian contexts, but globally.

Is the first book to problematize creativity in university teaching practice in Vietnam Offers a bottom-up perspective of Vietnamese higher education from current practitioners Draws on a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds about Vietnam's university reforms

Autorentext

Catherine Earl, Ph.D., is a social anthropologist, policy analyst, and community educator. Her research areas are gender equity, decent work, reducing social inequalities, and urban futures. She has published ten books and more than 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. She is an editor of Comparative Migration Studies (Springer), Ageing, Work and Welfare series (Edward Elgar), and Global Vietnam series (Springer). She is a senior lecturer at RMIT Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Part I Social Institutions and Labor Market Policies.- Chapter 2 Trade Union and Union Wage Premium.- Chapter 3 Minimum Wage System and Wage Distributions.- Chapter 4 Labor Contract Policy, Employment Security and Job Satisfaction.- Chapter 5 High Education Expansion Policy and Wages of College Graduates.- Part II Wage and Employment Institutions in Internal Labor Market.- Chapter 6 Seniority Wage, Mandatory Retirement System and Wage-Experience Profile.- Chapter 7 Dual Labor Market: The Wage Gaps between Formal and Informal Sectors.- Chapter 8 Discriminations against Women and Minority Workers and Wage Gaps.- Chapter 9 Work hours, Work-Family Conflict and Job Satisfaction.- Chapter 10 Membership of Communist Party of China and Managerial Promotion.