PRIMARY EDUCATION MAJORS’ AWARENESS OF HANDS-ON CREATIVE ACTIVITIES

Abstract

A hands-on creative activity is one that brings students chances to explore knowledge, train their skills and to penetrate into reality as well as foster their emotions. This is important new content that supports teaching activities in the new primary education curriculum applied since 2015. Students who major in Primary Education will be subject to the implementation of this content in the future. In order to get an insight into students’ awareness of this type of activity, the researchers has conducted an investigation into the status quo of some classes that belong to the Department of Primary Education, University of Education, the University of Da Nang. This also forms a basis for proposing measures to develop skills in designing and organizing hands-on creative activities for students in future researches.