Project: ‘The impact of cultural proficiency in the educational environment on the right
to quality education for minority groups in a globalization process: A case-study of
ethnic minority groups in Vietnam’
Amid today’s globalization process, cultural integration is a prerequisite for the development
of any country and any individual. It will bring more opportunities for people who are able to
assess and consider the diversity as contributions to their development and adapt to the
growing diversity. In education, cross-cultural issues become the driving forces to the
development and continuing reforms of the educational system and its concerned stakeholders
in response to the evolving needs of its clients. In essence, the cultural proficiency of each
party in the educational process is recognized as strongly influencing the provision of quality
education to all, particularly to the minority groups. With an aim of justifying this influential
relation in practice, the research will address the crucial issues on assessing the cultural
proficiency at institutional and individual levels; and on clarifying the Rights to Quality
Education. In turn, it will also open an insightful view at the impacts of cultural proficiency
on the Right to Quality Education for minority groups. Examining a case study with
Vietnam’s ethnic minority groups will help exemplify and consolidate the findings of the
research. The research will use both quantitative and qualitative methods to collect the data
with a sample of administrators, teachers, students, students’ parents and community at the
primary educational level.
The research is intended to help the educational leaders and practitioners gain the shared
understanding of how the cultural proficiency at the institutional and individual levels
contributes to the commitment of the Right to Quality Education. Moreover, it also proposes
strategic changes at both policy makers and practitioner levels for possible interventions in the
future in purpose of fulfilling the rights to quality education for minority groups through
promoting the cultural proficiency in the educational environment.
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Minh Phuong Luong
Room 4013, Institute for General Pedagogics and Social Pedagogics,
28 August Bebel Str., 18055 Rostock
+49 381 498 2670
+49 381 498 2694
minh.luong@uni-rostock.de