Tạp chí Khoa học Xã hội và Nhân văn Đại học Quốc gia Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh

The STEM integrated education is being strongly developed in Vietnam, facilitating students to apply flexibly and effectively the knowledge of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics to solve real-life problems. Following the new trend, STEM centers have been established throughout Vietnam in recent years. In addition, training programs for teachers and students on the STEM education, STEM conferences, and national/international competitions are also organized annually. However, the source of high quality materials for teachers in general and math teachers in particular is still limited. The 11th grade Math curriculum with the contents related to Algebra, Calculus, Probability, Solid Geometry, and etc., has applications in various fields and becomes background knowledge for the 12th grade Math and Higher Education Math program. Therefore, the authors decided to choose the current 11th Math program to research and propose teaching ideas integrating Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, and some Math softwares to support Math teachers in teaching in a new direction. On that basis, the important role of Mathematics in real life in general and in the STEM education in particular will be properly recognized.

Studies in entrepreneurial opportunity identification have been focused and performed in statistical methods in developed economies, achieving some good results. However, the studies provides just outside view of this phenomenon while opportunity identification is a thinking process happening inside the entrepreneur. This study aims at identification of factors impacting opportunity identification of entrepreneurs in developing economy of Vietnam with the use of interpretative phenomena analysis. The study has identified some specific factors affecting this identification and some managerial implications are proposed.

Over the past two decades Italian agricultural systems have recorded an extraordinary change in their structural foundations partially due also to the contradictory CAP regulations. The most significant factors that have produced the accelerated evolution in our countryside are two: on the one hand, the recognition and acquisition by the primary sector of new economic, social, environmental and cultural functions, on the other hand, the renewed interest in the beauty of rural areas, the importance of technical sustainable agricultural production and the quality of the food supply sources. To all these aspects, researchers and the general public attribute today the fundamental role of guarantors for the quality of life and human health, animal health and environmental protection. It is a new awareness that, breaking the traditional delay with which the primary sector responds to the cultural activities, with unexpected timing, has translated into concrete, conspicuous forms of land corporate reorganization. Applying the qualitative and quantitative methodology of the Interuniversity Research Group GECOAGRI LANDITALY to the latest census data of the agriculture in 2010, the contribution considers the recent evolution of Italian agricultural systems to evidence landscape outcomes and territorial issues.

During the period from the 17th century to the first half of the 19th century, Vietnam and Western countries exchanged knowledge and interacted with each other in many different fields, which is considered the first Western and Oriental cultural exchanges by scholars. These cultural exchanges with Western intellectuals facilitated easy entry of scientific and technological Western knowledge into Vietnam. In fact, Vietnamese feudal intellectual class gained easy access to scientific and technological Western knowledge. What were the attitude and actions of Vietnamese feudal intellectual class towards scientific and technological Western knowledge? What did the consequences result from their perceptions and actions towards scientific and technological Western knowledge? Through the answers to these questions, by historical and logical methods and the method of collecting, comparing the writings of the Vietnamese feudal intellectual class on Western, the article contributes another perspective to learn about the attitudes of the Vietnamese scholar class towards the Western science and technology. Therefore, finding out about this point will help us understand and clarify many issues in a more evident way, including the question why Vietnam couldn’t acculturate and gain ownership of Western knowledge in a successive way in order to develop and protect the country, thus, suffering from severe consequences.

The Republic of Turkey and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam celebrated the 40th anniversary of its diplomatic relations in 2018. In history, due to the geographic distance and differences of many aspects of language, religion and culture, the contact and relations between two nations were very limited. However, the relations between Turkey and Vietnam have achieved some prominent events. For example, on the voyage to Japan of a frigate named Ertuğrul of the Ottoman navy in 1890, it stopped to visit Sai Gon. During the Vietnam War, some of Turkish staffs and journalists like H. Oğuz Barut and Sami Kohen came to the South of Vietnam and reported on the war that was happening in Vietnam. These reports led the Turkish people have the objective and impartial perceptions of the country and people of Vietnam. After the Vietnam War ended, in 1978 the Turkish Government established diplomatic relations with the Vietnamese Government. Since that time, the diplomatic relations between two countries have gained some significant achievements. This article researches the relations between Turkey and Vietnam from the late of the nineteenth-century to the present. Based on some basic references, the Turkish - Vietnamese relations could be divided into three periods: in the late 19th century, during the Vietnam War and since 1978 to the present.

The South China Sea is one of the most important trade pathways in the world. Its strategic economic importance and its geographic location at the confluence of several spheres of influence have rendered it one of the “world’s hotspots”. The South China Sea issue began as a territorial dispute over the sovereignty of the islands and sea territory involving China, five ASEAN countries including Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and Taiwan. While the South China Sea has been the subject of disputes of sovereignty for some time, the conflict began to intensify when China established its nine-dash line in 2012 outlining its territorial claims in the body of water. China’s aggressive stance has prompted reactions from ASEAN countries as well as the US. The South China Sea is an area with relevance to U.S.’s national economic, strategic, security interests, so that increased tension within this area may threaten U.S.'s national interests. Vietnam is also aware that the United States is a superpower that shares concerns about China, as well as its influence in the region can play an important role in balancing power in the South China Sea Conflict. U.S presence help to contain China's aggressive actions, and multilateralization or internationalization of the South China Sea issues is also a contributing factor to control conflict. Therefore, the dispute in the South China Sea is a factor making a closer relationship between the U.S. and Vietnam. Vietnam and the United States established a Comprehensive Partnership in 2013, under which the two countries will strengthen and expand cooperation. In the future, U.S. - Vietnam cooperation will promote strong development, including sensitive fields, because of based on common strategic interests, including "sensitive" fields such as security and defense.

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is an effective foreign economic strategy that has been bringing positive economic effects to Japan in the modern era. Foreign investment activities have contributed to creating an important position for Japan in the world economy. Japan's investment market is very diverse and increasingly tends to move to Asia, especially Southeast Asia, where there are many developing economies, including Vietnam. Japan’s investment in Vietnam officially started in the early 1990s and has grown in both breadth and depth. Japan has quickly become one of the leading countries in terms of the number of investment projects as well as the amount of capital in Vietnam. Japanese enterprises not only operate in various areas but also show a very unique business identity compared to other foreign investors. This article selects Binh Duong province, which early received Japan’s investment and is evaluated as one of the bright spots in attracting foreign investment for economic development, as a typical case to study the Japanese investment in Vietnam. The research results will clarify the cause, process, scale, and field of the Japanese investment in Binh Duong, thereby contributing to reflecting the trends and characteristics of the Japanese direct investment activities in Vietnam in the period 1997 - 2016.

Ben Tre is an emerging destination in the Mekong Delta and known as ``Vietnam's coconut kingdom''. The number of visitors to Ben Tre has been continuously increased, but the revenue per visitor is still quite low compared with other destinations. In the current, the tourism product of Ben Tre is mainly agritourism which mostly supplied by traditional agricultural production sites. Very few agritourism practice hi-tech agricultural productions. Most visitors visit Ben Tre are from HCMC and neighboring provinces. Due to the small scale of agritourism business sites, they have not been reached the large and high-end markets. This study aims to identify the current agritourism business models and then proposed future business linkage models. Qualitative method is used to conduct this study. Data is collected through observation techniques and combined with faceto- face interviews at Phu An Khang Tourist, Hai Van Farm- Van Ho Bird Sanctuary, Bay Thao Durian Garden, and Ecotourism cooperation of Thanh Phong community. This study proposes that in the future, Ben Tre should link agritourism business sites based on horizontal integration model to promote tourist products into a new market with large scale and high-end customers. The models of horizontal integration should be implemented as the association model as similar to "Bienvenu à la ferme" (France) and the corporation model as similar to Marahastra Corporation (India) because Ben Tre has the similar conditions conduct and develop these models.

This study aims to build a theoretical framework to explore some main motivating factors which affect employee satisfaction in DongNai Province Inspectorate. The researcher employs meta-analysis methods to utilise valuable findings from previous overseas and domestic studies. The proposed theoretical framework is based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs (1943), ERG (1969), Kovach (1987), Public service motivation (1990). Simultaneously, there is a modification in order to fit into the context of DongNai Province Inspectorate. The suggested theoretical model indicates elements including promotion, social position, public serving, interesting work, good relationship and responsibilities. Employee satisfaction in DongNai Province Inspectorate is mostly affected by “interesting work”, because professional environment makes people feel secure to work in an organization. The impact of other factors is in a descending order as follows: promotion, public serving, social position, responsibilities and good relationship.