What Is The Relationship Between Teacher And Student Relationship In Vietnamese Culture

Teachers and student relationship plays an important role in education. In each culture, this relation articulates so different. In the oriental countries such as Vietnam, China, Korea, Japan, etc., this relation is also a measure of the value of human qualities. In the past, teachers played a central role in the Eastern classroom, but with the development of modern social and cultural exchanges between nations, the position of the teachers has been gradually changed. In terms of “power relation between teachers and learners in Vietnamese culture” that I spent many times looking for, particularly cultural education, the combination of East and West. However, within the framework of this paper and in relation to my own experience, the focus

Without their help, one man cannot succeed. Throughout expression of these proverbs and folk songs that I recognize there is a huge gap between teachers and student connection due to the biggest consequence of Confucius ideology in human Vietnamese’s conception. Ideologies are closely linked to power because the nature of ideological assumptions is embedded in particular conventions and depend on the power relations which inspire the convention (Fairclough, 2001). Actually, being dominated for a thousand years by China, Vietnamese greatly affects in culture, politics, language, so on and so forth. The Confucian ideology influences on education has been quite remained and made their connection tend to be partly the relation of the controller and recipient up to now. According to Phuoc (1995), "the Confucian model is teacher-centered, closed, suspicious of creativity, and predicated on an unquestioning obedience from the students", it is teacher centered method which is traditional teaching styles. Applying this method make students feel scared to mention new situations with no clear norms, satisfied with providing answers of their teachers. Therefore, they often regard teachers as knowledge transmitters, and of course, who standing in higher social status; otherwise teachers find it is not easy to make friend with