Mental Health and Employment of Vietnam Preschool Teachers in Covid-19: A Research in Hanoi, Vietnam

The Covid-19 pandemic has been having a very strong impact on the entire education system in Vietnam. In our education system, it can be said that preschool education is completely “frozen”. Unlike other grades where teaching is still carried out online, preschool education with its own characteristics has completely stopped all activities for quite a long time. Therefore, there have not seen any signs of reopening for preschools. This article presents some of the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on preschool teachers – one of the subjects who are suffering the most severely from the consequences of the pandemic, in terms of (1) mental health and (2) jobs.