Developing students' capacity to deal with body shaming

This initiative has many novel features, humanistic meaning and the ability to be widely applied in practice. The initiative focuses on clarifying solutions to develop students' ability to respond to the problem of body shaming through teaching some civic education lessons for grades 6 and 7.

Body shaming is not a new issue, but developing the ability to deal with body shaming through teaching civic education in grades 6 and 7 is a new idea. The initiative is a useful resource for civic education teachers to refer to. The author has proposed solutions with clear and suitable examples to organize teaching and learning to develop the ability to deal with body shaming for students.

This is a typical initiative mentioned at the 2024 provincial initiative recognition conference of the Provincial Initiative Recognition Council in the field of education established by the Department of Science and Technology, held on the morning of July 8.

This year, the Department of Science and Technology received 350 initiatives (a decrease of 145 initiatives compared to last year) proposed by agencies, units and localities for consideration and recognition of provincial-level initiatives, including: 104 initiatives proposed by the Department of Education and Training, sectors and 246 initiatives proposed by district-level People's Committees. Through evaluation and scoring, the Council recognized 160 initiatives (reaching 45.7% of the submitted initiatives), an increase of 3 recognized initiatives compared to last year.

In the field of social sciences, 42 initiatives were recognized as provincial initiatives; in natural sciences, 41 initiatives; in humanities, 40 initiatives; and in science and technology, 37 initiatives.

According to the Council's assessment, the quality of initiatives has improved this year. The selected initiatives are all assessed to be novel, creative, and widely applicable.