Tóm tắt Luận án Adapting to junior lecturers’ teaching at the academies, universities of The People’s Public Securities

PREAMBLE 1. A brief introduction of the thesis In natural environment and society fluctuating and developing continually, people need to adapt to integrate rapidly with the change and development. ‘Adapting to junior lecturers’ teaching at the academies, universities of The People’s Public Securities” is a specific adaptation study of junior lecturers’ teaching in the People's Police. The work is independent. There has never been any authors in Vietnam and in the world studying this issue, thus it meets research requirements. On the basis of generalizing and researching works relating to the research issues, the subject has developed the concept of adapting to teaching of junior lecturers at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security; determining the structure and factors affecting adapting to junior lecturers’ teaching; building measures of pedagogic psychology - to enhance the level of adaptation to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the people’s the People’s Public Security. 2. Rationale Teaching quality of lecturers is one of the important factors to ensure the quality of education and training. Party and Government always attach importance to development of teaching staff in and set the direction, proper policy to enhance the quality of teaching staff, meet the requirements and demands of national development. The documents of National Congress XI asserted: "Development of education is a top national policy. Fundamental innovation and comprehensive education of Vietnam is towards standardization, modernization, socialization, democratization and international integration, in which innovation of education mechanism management, developing lecturers and management staff is the key. Grasping the resolutions of the Party, the State, the Ministry of The People’s Public Security has always attached importance to developing, improving the quality of teachers, education managers gradually improving the system of legal documents on construction, developing teachers in the People’s Public Security making important legal basis so that authorities and training establishments unify to implement. Currently, there is considerable disparity between junior lecturers and senior lecturers at the academies, universities in the People’s Public Security about young faculty ratio accounts for 60 -70% of the teaching staff. Due to the need for scaling up training at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security; and because of the natural laws of the substituting older teachers generation by junior lecturers at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security so the number of junior lecturers is increasing in recent years. This is just a favorable factor but it is hard to develop junior lecturers at the academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. Junior lecturers’ difficulties caused by objective factors, for example, workload is abundant; the nature and extent of teaching require higher and higher. There are many changes in the context of globalization, the development of science, technology and knowledge-based economy. Therefore, junior lecturers are difficult to implement the responsibilities and tasks assigned, such as the organization and implementation of teaching; compiling teaching materials, scientific research ... Besides, there are other junior lecturers feeling fatigued, stressed in performing teaching. In particular, there are some junior lecturers who are not able to meet the requirements of teaching, and then they are ordered to do other work. Therefore, it is necessary to study theoretical and practical basis on adapting to activities of junior lecturers at the academies, universities of The People’s Public Securities to develop measures to aiming at improving adaptive level to the Junior lecturers’ teaching at the academies, universities of The People’s Public Securities, contributing to raising the quality of education and training at the academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. These years, the academies, universities in the People’s Public Security have taken measures to improve the quality of education and training at academies and schools, especially the measures to improve the quality of teaching for lecturers. However, the in-depth research on adaptation to of junior lecturers’ teaching has not been mentioned. So researching on adapting to junior lecturers’ teaching at the academies, universities in the People’s Public Security is an urgent request from the practical development of academies, universities in the People’s Public Security in the current period today. 3. The purpose and tasks of the research 3.1. Purposes of the research To clarify the rationale and reality of adapting to activities of junior lecturers at the academies, universities of The People’s Public Securities. The subject proposes some measures of pedagogic psychology-aiming at improving adaptive level to the junior lecturers’ teaching at the academies, universities of The People’s Public Securities. 3.2. Research tasks To achieve the purpose of the study, the subject clarifies the following: - Clarifying the rationale and reality about adaptation to activities of junior teachers at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. - Study the current status on adapting junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. - Develop measures of pedagogical psychology to enhance adaptation to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. 4. Objects and scope of research and scientific theory 4.1. The object of study Adapting to junior lecturers’ teaching. 4.2. Scope of Research - Limiting the object of study - The degree of adaptation to junior lecturers’ teaching. - Limiting the object of study There are 171 junior lecturers who have less than 5 years of experience and are under 35 years old at the People's Security Academy; People's Police Academy; College of Engineering - Logistics of The People’s Public Security; The University of Fire Prevention Fire fighting. 33 managers, leaders of faculties and departments at the Academy of People's Security; People's Police Academy; College of Engineering - Logistics of the People’s Public Security; The University of Fire Prevention Fire fighting. 4.3. Scientific hypothesis Adapting to the junior lecturers’ teaching at the academies, universities lecturers in the People’s Public Security is that the junior teachers have positive change, psychological adjustment to meet the requirements of the teaching at the academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. If clarifying theoretical and reality of adaptation to junior teachers' activities, assessing the real situation of adaptation to their teaching, we will find measures of pedagogic psychology to enhance adaptation level to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. 5. Rationale, reality and research methods 5.1. Rationale, reality The thesis is based on the method of Marxism - Leninism and Ho Chi Minh, the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Central Police Party Committee on the formation of the psychological qualities, personality and the building of Socialist people, developing lecturers in the People’s Public Security. The thesis is based on the principles of the methodology of Marxist psychology. Factual basis of the thesis is the junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security at present; reporting, summarizing the work of the teaching at academies, universities and through the survey process of junior lecturers’ teaching at academies and universities in the People’s Public Security 5.2. Research methods The thesis uses synthetically research methods in the social sciences, such as: Literature review of studies; observation; survey with questionnaires; seminar, interview; performance analysis; method portrayed; the method of data processing by mathematical statistics. 6. New contributions of the thesis The thesis has the following fundamental contributions: - Developing concepts of adaptation to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security; - Defining criteria for evaluating adaptation; clarify the characteristics of junior lecturers and teaching characteristics at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. - Identifying psychological structures of adaptation to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. - Assessing the situation of adaptation to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. - Clarifying the factors affecting the adaptation to the junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. - Proposing some measures of pedagogical psychology in order to improve the adaptation level to junior lecturers’ teaching at academies, universities in the People’s Public Security. 7. Theoretical and practical significance of the thesis Theoretical: making contributions, developing the theory of adaptation to activities of junior lecturers in general, junior lecturers at academies, and universities in the People’s Public Security in particular. In practice: providing a theoretical basis and reality for the Party Committees, the Board of Directors, the Board of Rectors of academies and universities on leadership, directing to improve quality of lecturers in general and junior lecturers in particular to meet the task of protecting national security. Also, the findings of the study are also used as references, research and academic work in teaching, educational administration and leadership at the academies and schools in general and in The People’s Public Security in particular. 8. Structure of the thesis Besides the introduction, conclusion, references and appendices, the thesis has 3 chapters, 11 sections LITERATURE REVIEW 1. The study relating to subjects 1.1. Researching the adaptation to their professional activities Occupational adaptation is the process of personal change to meet the requirements of knowledge, attitude and career skills. The authors studying the adaptation to professional activities in the world and in the country often focus on learners, who study in vocational adaptation at schools rather than agencies, businesses... Authors Peter Creed, Tracy Fallon, Michell Hood Griffth University of Australia have research on: "The relationship between occupational adaptation and vocational concerns of young people". Author R.D. Duffy and D.L. Blustein says occupation adaptability is understood as the self-determination of the occupation, own choice of the occupation, self desire to achieve certain results in job, searching vocational schools that fit their abilities...Author T.N.B. Basinanova, D.V. Kalinhitreva consider the relationship between the intellect and occupation adaptation, psychological - social adaptation. Author A.E.Golomstooc studies of "occupation choice and personality education for students". M.V. Volannen is interested in matters of vocation adaptation and social center for youth employment. Author B.Hesketh: "Adaptation to occupation psychology is to cope with every vocational change". The study, "Factors of occupation adaptation of students" posted on http:/www.jour.club.ru. reflects factors of occupation adaptation of students through the stages of the occupation adaptation process of students. Author Anna Pankova Tonnepna with the theme: "Adaptation of occupation psychology of young professionals" social intelligence research is adaptation elements of a social psychology of young professionals. Profession adaptation field is also Vietnam psychologists' interest as: Authors Dao Thi Oanh, Tran Trong Thuy conduct theoretical research to serve the research and study of lecturers and students, graduate students relating to the subject; Le Huong mentions the themeal issues of the young economy of our country, which is the link between attitudes towards work and adaptability, competitiveness of current laborers... Author Nguyen Van Ho has a lot of valuable research on vocational education and profession adaptation, especially for "Pedagogy Adaptation ". Author Duong Thi Nga, studies "Developing occupation adaptability for pedagogical college students" showed factors influencing the adaptation capacity for college students. Duong Thi Thanh Thanh, the study on factors affecting adaptation to teaching manegement of principals of Nghe An Primary Schools shows factors affecting the adaptation of the principal. In conclusion, the studies on occupation adaptation show that, the authors refer to the concept of occupation adaptation, subjective, objective factors, and specific indicators for occupation adaptation. The authors have the same opinion that occupation adaptation process of adaptation to the characteristics and conditions of employment and the labor process. Occupation Adaptation is the process of adaptation shown in all three aspects of the human psychology: awareness, emotion and action. The internal factors have an important role to the level of adaptation of individual to professional activities, such as profession trends; profession building plans; the profession decisions; intellect index. However, the authors do not analyse the content of adaptation to professional activities, as well as process of specific adaptation to help the audience with better adaptation in the different occupation environments; the projects do not present some typical cases of subjects with occupation adaptation to clarify theoretical and practical issues of the study. 1.2. Research on adaptation to learning Research on adaptation to learning is studied by many foreign authors in many different aspects, from different educational levels from elementary school to university. Bren P.Allen thinks that students wanting to adapt to learning in universities must form skills: Managing strictly personal time budgets; learning skills; overpowering negative emotions to overcome the difficulties in learning, examinations; choosing the forms of learning; being active, forming habits, behaviours of profession. The work of H.W. Bernard confirms the role of positive relationships between teachers and students, to adapt to the learning activity, not only students are active to study but teachers are active in teaching. Through his study, the author points out specific measures to help students quickly adapt to learning. Chen Xinyin author of works: "Frustration of Chinese children: The importance of the development for the adaptation to a school and society". Author Ming - Kung Yang and Wei-Chin Hsiao, publishing works "Research on the vocational adaptation of vocational school students" shows vocational school students in China with active behavior of adaptation to learning skills. P. Zettergren with the study: "The school adaptation in adolescence for normal children and children previously spurned". Three psychologists as J. Hopkins, N. Malleson, I. Sarnoff study the link between academic results with the opposite sex friendships of foreign students studying in London. A.Arkoff, the author of works: "Adaptation and mental health", says that the adaptation in general of humans includes the following indicators: happiness, satisfaction, self-esteem, personal growth, personal integration, the ability to interact with the environment, independence from the environment. Author O. EPiskun with the study: "The impact of intellect characteristics to adaptation to the learning of students of technical universities". The authors C.M. Sukina, Wendy S.Grolnick; Marika Silvan studies the adaptation of primary school students and shows adaptation model; adaptation process and the working methods and pedagogical dynamic impact to help students adapt well. In Vietnam, many authors have studied the adaptation of learning of students in different ages and different environments. Author Vu Thi Nho with scientists in the work "The adaptation of learning of elementary students" considers the adaptation to learning activity a form of social adaptation and including two main aspects: firstly, adaptation to the academic relationship but mainly the relationship between teachers - students; secondly, the adaptation to the requirements of the learning. Author Do Manh Ton has a study "Research on adaptation to learning and practicing of academies in the army." Author Phan Quoc Lam with the theme: "The adaption of learning of pupils in grades 1". It was found that, authors Phan Quoc Lam, Do Manh Ton, Nguyen Xuan Thuc, Le Ngoc Lan from the perspective of psychology of activities, they do research on adaptation. With them, activities are not only objects but methods of adaptation. It means that adaptation is to adapt to activities and to do this, the individual must put into operation, through their own operation. Through this process individuals acquire experience, forming the new psychological structure, helping individuals overcome these difficulties and ensure action results. Authors Nguyen Thac, Do Thi Thanh Mai, Dang Thi Lan Duong Thi Thoan, Nguyen Thi Ut Sau had the research on adaptation to the learning of students in different school environments. The works have shown that students do not have suitable learning methods, which is the reason why the level of students’ adaptation is not high. Besides, the authors also developed the specific measures of pedagogical psychology - to enhance the degree of adaptation to student learning. In summary, the research work on the adaptation to learning of students, students in the world and Vietnam has studied many aspects of adaptation in learning. From these studies, the authors has identified the objective criteria to measure the expression of adaptation and learning and indicated many subjective and objective factors affecting students’ adaptation process. The projects have launched several measures to help pupils and students quickly adapt to the school environment. 1.3. Adapting to teaching Some foreign authors study adaptation to teaching: Author A.I.Serbacov and A.V.Mudric with a study: "A teacher’s adaptation to profession". Author G.J.Pine with a study: "The adaptation of teachers in professional activities". Author S.N. Shcheglova with a study: "The adaptive features of secondary teachers to the value of the use of computers." Mustafa Ozturk authors have studies: "The first step to get familiar with teaching: difficulties in adaptation of junior lecturers." Author Nguyen Chi Tang has a research: "The adaptation of secondary school teachers with the application of information technology in teaching". Author Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lien with a research: "The adaptation of lecturers to training of credits at Hanoi University of Education"; Nguyen Thi Hue has a study "Psychosocial Adaptation to the teaching in training of credits of lecturer in the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi". The study sheds light on the specific issues that teachers often encounter in the process of teaching as pedagogy, teaching skills; skills to use teaching facilities; relationships with colleagues and students. Furthermore, the authors also studied factors affecting the adaptation of teachers to teaching. The authors have shown concepts of adaptation to teaching; offering criteria for evaluating the adaptation of lecturers based on the transformation, change the psychology of junior lecturers in terms of awareness, attitudes and actions to the conditions, circumstances and requirements in teaching; showing the subjective, objective elements, affecting adaptation of junior lecturers; proposing measures to help lecturers adapt well. 2. General evaluation of the results of research works published and the problems posed the thesis should focus on solv