MINISTRY OF EDUCATION
AND TRAINING
HO CHI MINH NATIONAL
ACADEMY OF POLITICS
ACADEMY OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION
NGÔ XUÂN DƯƠNG
APPLYING HO CHI MINH’S THOUGHT
IN THE WORK OF EDUCATING PATRIOTISM
TO VIETNAMESE YOUTH TODAY
ABSTRACT OF THE DOCTORAL THESIS
IN POLITICAL STUDIES
Hanoi – 2019
The Thesis has been completed at
ACADEMY OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION
Supervisors:
1. Assoc.Prof, PhD Luu Van An Lưu Văn An
2. Assoc.Prof, PhD Mai Duc NgocMai Đức Ngọc
REVIEWER 1:
REVIEWER 2:
REVIEWER 3:
THE THESIS WILL BE DEFENDED AT THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS
OF ACADEMY OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION
Hour…….day…….month……..year 2019
The thesis can be found at the library:
- Natonal Library, Ha Noi
- Academy of Journalism and Commucation
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INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale
Ho Chi Minh’s Thought is the ideological foundation of our Party and the great
spiritual property of our people, guiding the struggle of our people to go to victory.
Promoting learning, applying and following his thoughts is an extremely important
and meaningful work for the Vietnamese revolution in the period of accelerating the
national industrialization, modernization and integration getting deeper and deeper.
Patriotism runs like a red thread throughout history, is a noble spiritual
product, holding the highest standard for morality and leading the ladder of cultural
and spiritual values of the Vietnamese nation. Patriotism acts as a great endogenous
motivation of the Vietnamese ethnic community, creating the unrivaled power in the
resistance wars against foreign aggression and in the cause of building the country.
Young people are the mainstay of the country, are the future owners of the
country, are the pioneering force in building and defending the Fatherland, which are
one of the factors determining the success or failure of the Vietnamese revolution.
Taking care, fostering and educating young people are really important and necessary
in order to ensure the stability and sustainable development of the country.
Nowadays, we are striving to build a Vietnam which is peaceful, rich,
independent, democratic and going up to socialism. This is a great and glorious career
but really arduous, complex and unprecedented. For the purpose of accomplishing
this career, one of the most important motivations is to promote learning, following
Ho Chi Minh’s Thought, arousing and highly promoting patriotism in the Party, in all
strata of the population, especially young generations who will be successors,
continuing to raise the flag of national independence associated with socialism to go
to the final victory.
Applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of educating patriotism to young
people is a significant part of the ideological work of our Party. Over the past years,
this work has achieved encouraging results, for instance, the party committees led the
political system and the whole society to better perform the work of educating
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patriotism to young people; the quality of the cadres who were directly involved in
educational tasks was constantly improved; educational programs, contents and
methods were regularly innovated; material conditions for education were interested in
investing and improving, etc. Nevertheless, in addition to these positive ones, the
patriotism education for young people on the basis of applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thought
has limited in awareness; the quality of the team directly working on educational tasks
was weak and lacking, educational contents and methods remained inadeqate, a part of
young people also showed signs of deteriorating politcal thought, morality and
lifestyle, ...
The above-mentioned limitations and shortcomings are due to many reasons, of
which a very basic one is the lack of a thorough and comprehensive study on the
values of Ho Chi Minh’s Thought so that they would be applied in accordance with
the current situation.
From the reality of patriotism education for Vietnamese youth on the basis of
applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thought and the significance of this work to the development
of the country, the topic “Applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of educating
patriotism to Vietnamese youth today” was selected for the doctoral thesis title in
Political studies, majoring in Ideological work.
2. Research aims and objectives of the Thesis
2.1. Research aims
On the basis of clarifying the issues of theory, analysis and assessment of the
situation and the thesis recommend perspectives and solutions to enhance the application
of Ho Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of educating patriotism to Vietnamese youth
today.
2.2. Research objectives
- To point out the issues that have been or have not been studied and should be
further studied.
- To clarify concepts of tools, contents and methods, and the need to apply Ho
Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of educating patriotism to young people.
- To analyze basic impact factors; clarify achievements and limitations in
performing the contents and methods of patriotism education for young people
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associated with the application of Ho Chi Minh’s Thought and its causes; the
questions posed.
- To recommend perspectives and solutions that would enhance the application
of Ho Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of educating patriotism to young people.
3. Object and scope of the study
3.1. Object of the study
Applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of educating patriotism to
Vietnamese youth today.
3.2. Scope of the study
- For scientific content:
+ Ho Chi Minh’s patriotism and Ho Chi Minh’s Thought on youth education
should be applied to defining contents and methods of educating partriotism to young
people.
- For subjects: focusing on surveying rural youth, youth workers, young
people and students.
- For space: The Thesis should survey the application of Ho Chi Minh’s
Thought in the work of educating patriotism to Vietnamese youth in 9 provinces and
cities, including Bac Ninh, Hanoi, Nam Dinh, Nghe An, Nha Trang, Dak Lak, Ba
Ria-Vung Tau and Soc Trang.
- For time: From 2008 up to now.
4. Theoretical basis and research approaches
4.1. Theoretical basis: Theory of Marxism and Leninism, Ho Chi Minh’s
Thought, guidelines of the Party, policies, laws of the State with reference to youth
education.
4.2. Research approaches
- Methodology: Dialectical materialism and historical materialism.
- Research methods: deduction and induction, analysis and synthesis, history
anad logic, comparison, statistics, sociological investigation, etc.
5. New scientific contributions of the Thesis
- Giving a new definition of applying Ho Chi Minh’s Thought in the work of
educating patriotism to Vietnamese youth today.