Abstract:

Author of the paper deals with a current issue of the Roma and non-Roma pupils´ co-existence in the school integration and school inclusion in Slovakia. She points out the possibilities of overcoming these issues through the Roma literary text and children´s literary character with a social disadvantage within the multicultural and emotional education of the pupils in inclusive education of pupils from the Roma ethnic group as well. Implementation of multicultural and emotional education might enable all pupils to find out the values of both major and minority (Roma ethnic group) society together; and to understand mutual differences; and also learn to accept them as a natural part of their lives, which cannot occur without the development of positive emotions and feelings in all pupils, i.e. without the development of cognitive (IQ) and emotional intelligence (EQ) in all of the pupils.

Keywords:

Children's literary protagonist, social disadvantage, inclusive education, Roma ethnic group.