THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

TRAN HOANG TINH

MANAGEMENT OF SELF-DISCIPLINE EDUCATION FOR
STUDENTS AT THE CENTER FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE
AND SECURITY EDUCATION
Speciality: Educational Management
Code: 9140114

DISSERTATION SUMMARY

THAI NGUYEN - 2019


The dissertation was finished at:
THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr Pham Viet Vuong.

Reviewer 1:………………………………………………

Reviewer 2:………………………………………………

Reviewer 3:……………………………………………….

The dissertation will be defended in the university committee:
THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY - UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION
At ……………….., 2019


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INTRODUCTION
1. Rationale for the research
Discipline is an important quality of employees in the modern
society, which creates cultural beauty in personal life and order and
rule in the community. In present society, due to the impact of the
market mechanism and international integration, in addition to some
positive aspects such as dynamism, creativity and sense of
entrepreneurship, the youth and students, on the reverse side,
contribute to many negative phenomena, the order and rule in many
places are sometimes violated.
Disciplinary education for students is a measure to ensure the
success of courses, the quality of training of universities, and to form
an important quality of professional workers in the industrial society
we are aiming for.
In terms of theory, so far in our country, there have been some
research projects on disciplinary education for students at high

Disciplinary education activities for students at centers for
national defense and security education.
3.2. Participants of the research
Management of disciplinary education for students at the
Center for National Defense and Security Education.
4. Scope of the research
- In terms of contents: Management of disciplinary education
for students in the system of centers for national defense and security
education.
- In terms of research field: At present, there are two systems
of national defense and security education center in the whole
country: one is university centers managed by the Ministry of
Education and Training, the other is military college centers managed
by the Ministry of National Defense. The dissertation carried out
surveys at 5 centers managed by the Ministry of Education and
Training: Center for National Defense and Security Education -Hue
University, Center for National Defense and Security Education
-Hanoi University of Education 2, Center for National Defense and
Security Education -Hanoi National University, Center for National
Defense and Security Education - Ho Chi Minh City National
University, Center for National Defense and Security Education Thai Nguyen University and conducted an experiment at the Center


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for National Defense and Security Education -Thai Nguyen
University.
- In terms of time:From 2014 to 2018
5. Hypothesis of the research
Discipline is an important quality of personality with complex
psychological structure, the formation of discipline for students is a

questionnaires; interview; experience synthesis; testing; experiment.


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-Group of supportive methods: Use statistical math formulas
and SPSS software to process data.
8. Arguments of the research
- Discipline of students in national defense and security
education centers is the product of education and training, reflected
in the awareness, attitude, behavior of students, obeying regulations
and rules of the centers, overcoming all difficulties and obstacles, to
successfully complete every task, bringing success to training
sessions.
- Disciplinary education management at national defense and
security education centers is more effective than at any other
educational environments.
- Management of disciplinary education for students at
national defense and security education centers is a combination of
measures, consistent with the characteristics of the students’ ages and
social practices, contributing positively to the implementation of the
education of national defense and security and training objectives of
universities.
9. Research questions
- What is the nature of the sense of discipline? How does the
formation process of students’discipline at national defense and
security education centers take place?
- What are the characteristics of disciplinary education for
students at national defense and security education centers? What are
theimpact factors?
- What is the real situation of discipline, disciplinary education

Chapter 1
THEORETICAL BASIS ON MANAGEMENT OF
DISCIPLINARY EDUCATION FOR STUDENTS AT THE
CENTER FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE AND SECURITY
EDCATION
1.1. Previousresearch on management of disciplinary educationfor
students
1.1.1. Foreign research
1.1.1.1. Research projects on discipline and sense of discipline
Discipline and sense of discipline are important issues of social
life, so many scientists have studied on their various aspects in
differents field of study such as Philosophy, Sociology, Education
and Psychology. In each different political regime, scientists also
have different approaches to and concepts of discipline and sense of
discipline.


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1.1.1.2. Research projects of management of disciplinary education.
Many scientists have studied in depth about the position, role,
educational path and goal of disciplinary education for different
subjects and ages. All the authors claimed thatdiscipline is a quality
of not only each individual but also of all members in the
community; it helps each person and every community to fulfil the
objectives that have been set out in a proper order.
1.1.2. Previous research in Vietnam
1.1.2.1. Research on disciplinary education for students
In our country, research projects on disciplinary education
initially focused on high school students, and thenon students and
military school learners. Although there are many different

1.2.1. Discipline
1.2.1.1. General concept
From scientists’ viewpoints and our analysis we claimed that
"Discipline is the rule, the sanctions set to maintain the stability and
development of organizations and to regulate behaviors of the
members so as to achieve common goals.”
1.2.1.2.Military discipline
For the military - armed forces, with specialized activities of
political and military training, combat readiness, it is a requirement
that all military personnel strictly obey commands, rules of the army,
and living routine. So according to us: Military discipline is the
orders, regulations, and directives that require all military personnel
to perform promptly and accurately.
1.2.1.3. Students’ discipline in national defense and security centers
A national defense and security (NDS) center is a place where
students of universities and colleges focus on learning about NDS
knowledge in 4 to 5 weeks. Therefore, students’ discipline in NDS
centers are domestic rules, living routines and training tasks, strictly
regulated and requiring all students to comply, to ensure the
consistency in the operation of the centers and to achieve the
objectives of the course.
1.2.2. Sense of discipline
1.2.2.1. General concept
From the scholars' concepts, it is clear that sense of discipline
is an important quality of the individual; it is the observance of rules
and regulations, in order to meet the common requirements of the


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community.Sense of discipline unites the collective benefits and



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self-conciousness in trainingand practising to form qualities and
capabilities in accordance with the requirements of the society and time.
1.3.2. Disciplinary education for students
Disciplinary education for students is an important task of
universities. This job is done through the teaching process, through
experience activities, collective activities and social exchanges. The
result of disciplinary education for students is the transformation of
the requirements of schools, social organizations, and the State laws
into the awareness, attitude and behavior of each individual.
1.3.3. Disciplinary education for studentsat NDS centers
Disciplinary education for students at the NDS centers is a
process of systematic impact of educators on students through
various forms of organization, to raise awareness, form attitudes,
habits, behaviors of discipline for students in learning and training at
the center and maintaining and developing it in learning and working
after the course.
1.4. Theoretical issues on management of disciplinary education
for students
1.4.1. Management
Management is an organized and oriented impact of managing
subjects on managed objects by diverse methods to achieve the
defined objectives.
1.4.2.Management of disciplinary education for students at NDS
centers
Management of disciplinary education for students at NDS
centers is the process of organizing, directing and exploiting
resources to educate awareness, attitude and behavior for students in

2.1.2. Oganizational structure of NDS centers
2.1.3. Functions, responsibilities and jurisdictions of NDS centers
2.2. Survey of the situation
2.2.1. Aims
2.2.2. Objects and quantity of objects
2.2.3. Contents
2.2.4. Data collection instruments and survey sample
(questionnaires and the others)
2.2.5. Methods of survey
2.2.6. Methods of data processing


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2.3. Results of the survey
2.3.1. Students’ discipline at NDS centers
2.3.1.1. Students’ and educational forces’ awareness
The awareness and understanding of students with regard to
the requirements of learning and training activities at the centers at
first is not good, especially on the requirements and rules of learning
activities. Later on during the process of learning and training at the
centers, the level of knowledge of each student is strengthened and
improved gradually, but still does not meet the requirements.
2.3.1.2. The attitude of students on discipline observance
In general, the attitude of students in learning and training at
the centers is not really good and does not fully meet the criteria set
for each student during and after the learning and training process at
the centers.
2.3.1.3. Student behavior in disciplinary observance
According to the evaluation of educational forces and selfassessment of students, only the behavior of students in examinations
and end-of-module tests is "Good" ; the one in classroom learning

centers
2.3.3.1. Awareness of the role and importance of the management of
disciplinary education for students
As can be seen from the survey results, the educational forces
had a very good awareness of the role and importance of managing
disciplinary education for students, 83% of participants rated it as
"Extremely necessary", only 17% rated "Neccesary" and no one rated
at the last three levels, and the average score was 4.83 at good level.
2.3.3.2. Directive for the planning of disciplinary education for
students
Currently NDS centers often build 3 types of disciplinary
education plans for students, the school year plan, Course plan
(learning session) and Weekly plan. According to the survey results,
the directive for the planning of disciplinary education for students at
NDS centers was only evaluated relatively good for the type of
school year plan, while the other two were rated ineffective, leading
to the fact that the quality of disciplinary education for students did
not yet reach the required aims and the average score of the directives
to set up the plan was 3.350, at average level.


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2.3.3.3. Result of the directives for the implementation of disciplinary
education for students
From the survey results, the result of directives for the
implementation of disciplinary education for students was not good .
Content No 2 "Directives on contents, program and time of education
for students" and content No 3 "Directivesfor the management of
innovation of disciplinary education methods for students" had better
results, the rate at very good and goodwas over 55%, only about 15%

and objective factors on the management of disciplinary education
for students, as well as the training results of students when learning
at NDS centers.
2.3.4. Management effectiveness and causes
2.3.4.1. Management effectiveness
Although the reflected results were not as high as expected, but
there have been certain efforts in the education and training of
teachers and administrators, along with the effort of each student
each day and week. The vast majority of students are aware that
sense of discipline is needed in every student, this is a quality that is
not only needed when studying at NDS centers, or at university, but
also in work and in their whole life afterwards, so most of the
students have identified this is the best condition for each student to
build and form for himself. However, in the implementation process,
there were still some limitations in both management and education,
which in the future need to be overcome.
2.3.4.2. Advantages
Most students of NDS centers had awareness of the position,
role and necessity of discipline in the process of learning in general
and in the learning of national denfense and security education in
particular. After studying at NDS centers, the majority of students
could identify a studentasself-disciplined if he is "self-aware and
activein observing the regulations in learning and training and
considers it as a need."
The disciplinary education for students at NDS centers has
been implemented quite well; with various methods, contents and
forms it has brought about certain effectiveness, having transformed
students’ awareness, attitudes and behaviors on the observance of
discipline, gradually form a sense of disciplineamong students.
The management of disciplinary education for students has

learning and training, along with their habit of being free before
entering the center made them thought at the beginning that it was a
bundle, rigid learning environment and the administration was a lot
of red tape.
The second reason is that the competency and skill of some
teachers and management officialsdid not meet the task requirements,
which is also an obstacle in disciplinary education for students in


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NDS centers. Besides, the coordination between forces in NDS
center was not good, not yetmobilizing the participationof all forces
in the education and management of education for students. The
remuneration regime for officials and teachers who work in NDS
centers is still limited, so it has not fully utilized their inherent ability.
The third reason is that the Party's policy, the State's policies
and laws in the field of NDS are always revised to suit the actual
situation of the country, the world and the trend of the time. At the
same time, the impact of the environment in each center also affects
the management of disciplinary education for students. It is stipulated
in the Government's decree that the secondment of military officers is
short (5 years), which has a certain influence on the process of
accumulating experience in the implementation of education in
general and the disciplinary education for students in particular.
The fourth reason is that facilities and equipment for education
and management of education for students at different centers are not
synchronized and adequate, there are no specific forms of these
materials. Study time at NDS centers is short (from 4 to 5 weeks).
Conclusion of chapter 2
Chapter 3

3.2.3. Direction of close coordination between educational
organizations andforces in the center
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the management of
disciplinary education for students, it is necessary to clearly define
tasks and closely coordinate between organizations and forces in the
center. Educational organizations and individuals can only promote
their role and effectiveness when they know their tasks and have
close coordination with each other, throughout the process and the
whole system is operated synchronously and in an unified way.
3.2.4. Building self-management platoon model in NDS centers
Building a model of self-management platoon in the center
aims to promote the spirit of self-awareness, positivity, of each
student, and the whole platoon in learning and training, changing the
goals and objectives set by educational managers and teachers into


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the need of each student, turning the educational process into selfeducation process.
3.2.5. Direction of the implementation of various forms of
extracurricular activities
The diversification of various types of activities aims not only
to traindiscipline for students , but also an effective measure to
manage disciplinary education for students, through activities such
as: Organizing students to watch documentary films in the field of
NDS; Organizing students to visit museums of armed forces,
historical relics or some army units located in the area; Organizing
military games contributing to improving the effectiveness of
disciplinary education for students, so that students can have
favorable conditions to train themselves.
3.2.6. Direction of innovating methods of testing and assessment of

- Results of the examination on the necessity and feasibility of
measures show that, basically, most of the people agreed with the
system of measures proposed by the author. Most of the reviews
concentrated at very necessary and very feasible level, which proves
that the measures are appropriate, meeting the requirements of
improving the quality and efficiency of management of disciplinary
education for students at the centers.
The survey results also show that the relationship between the
necessity and feasibility of the measuresto managedisciplinary
education for students is very close, meaning that it is both necessary
and at the same time very feasible. It is also the basis for improve the
efficiency of NDS education at the centers, which is a problem that
many people concern.
4.2. Experimenting measures to manage disciplinary education
for students at Thai Nguyen University's Center for National
Defense and Security Education
4.2.1. Overview of the experiment process
4.2.1.1. Experiment purpose
4.2.1.2. Experiment subjects and forces
- Experiment is conducted 2 times:
+ Firs time: From August 14, 2017 to September 17, 2017, on


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154 K51 students from University of Education. (experimental group
1had 77 students, control group 1 had 77 students).
+ Second time: From May 14, 2018 to June 17, 2018, on 168 K53
students fromUniversity of Technology and Industries . (experimental
group 2 had 85 students; control group 2 had 83 students).
- Experiment was conductedat Thai Nguyen University's

discipline of the experimental group increased in a more positive
direction; the rate of awareness, attitude and behavior of students in
the experimental groupwas higher compared to the control one. In
general, the first experiment brought about quite promising results,
the most obvious evidencewas the result of learning the subject of
NDS education of the experimental group.
However, after the first experiment, we also noticed some
limitations, so welearned from them before conducting the second one.
B. Second time experiment
1. Survey
2. Second time experiment pre-evaluation
3. Analysis of results after the second experiment
- Results of the sense of discipline of the experimental group
and the control one before and after the second experiment.
- Comparing learning results of NDS education subject of
experimental group 2 and control group 2, the relation with students’
sense of discipline.
After the second experiment, the results were as good as
expected. The sense of discipline of students in experiment 2
increased more than in experiment 1, while learning results of
students in experimental group 2 were higher than that of
controlgroup 2. It is also shown that the measures were brought into
effect, bringing about high effectiveness in the education of NDS for
students at the center.
4.3. Conclusion after examination and experiment
The examination and experiment process were strictly carried
out, the data and evidence of the experimentwerevalid and reliable.
The selection of participants, location is suitable to the scope and
purpose of the identified research aims. The results of the
examination on the necessity and feasibility of the measures, and of

showing thatit is neccesary for authorities, teachers and management
officials to cooperate smoothly.
4. Measures to manage disciplinary education for students at
NDS centers proposed by the author are measures of the educational
forces to students. Each measure has different purposes, contents and