Fine Arts has 11 textbooks

According to the decision approving the list of 10th grade textbooks used in the establishment education According to the new general program approved by the Minister of Education and Training, the Fine Arts books used from the school year 2022-2023 only have books of the series “Connecting knowledge and life” by the Vietnam Education Publishing House. Male.

Thus, although the spirit of the new general education program is a program of many books, aiming to “break the monopoly”, currently, there are only Fine Arts books of one publisher.

However, the 10-series Fine Arts textbook “Connecting Knowledge to Life” of this Publishing House has 10 books on each topic: Painting; Architecture; Multi-media art design; Theory and history of art; Printed graphics; Sculpture; Fashion Designer; Graphic design; Industrial design; Theater and cinema art design.

In addition, there is also a textbook on the topic of learning Fine Arts 10, also belonging to the series Connecting knowledge and life.

Thus, even though there is only one Fine Arts subject in a set of books, there are 11 titles, becoming the subject with the most textbooks.

In fact, if you follow the Fine Arts program in the new high school program, the titles of these books correspond to the required requirements of the subject.

Looking at the number of books, some comments wondered why with only one Fine Arts subject, it was necessary to divide up to 11 such books.

While two subjects Math and Literature, although the number of periods is a lot, but only 2-3 books each. Or at the secondary school level in the new high school curriculum, the 2 subjects of History and Geography can still be combined into 1 textbook of History and Geography.

Exchange with VietNamNet, Ms. Nguyen Thi Dong, Editor-in-Chief of the Fine Arts program – the new high school program said that, according to the design of the new general education program, the 10th grade Fine Arts subject has 10 requirements to be elective among: Theory and history of art; Art; Graphics (prints); Sculpture; Industrial design; Graphic design; Fashion Designer; Design art of stage, cinema; Multi-media art design; Architecture.

Out of these, students are allowed to choose 4 content to study.

Thus, according to Ms. Dong, students will have to buy at least 4 books – corresponding to at least 4 contents to learn.

“The books must be written according to the overall curriculum, and 10 or 1 books are designed by each publisher,” Ms. Dong said.

Ms. Dong said, maybe because the Fine Arts subject has 10 requirements to meet, the Vietnam Education Publishing House designed each content into a book, to facilitate students.

“Because if the book design includes all the contents, even if they only choose 4 contents, they still have to buy the book with 10 contents, which means they still have to pay to buy the unselected content,” Ms. Dong said. .

However, Ms. Dong said, is the specific reason for the design of 10 books or the division of books into contents compared to the aggregated books, is it more economical for learners if calculated according to the price of cover, printing, etc. … only Vietnam Education Publishing House can understand.

Particularly for the Fine Arts Study Topic 10, only in case students choose a topic to practice more skills will they have to buy more.

Hai Nguyen