The Activities of Nongovernmental Organizations in the Field of Preschool Education for Socially Disadvantaged and their Role in the Inclusion of Roma Children

The diploma thesis combines the issue of the educational system in the Czech Republic with the issue of social exclusion that contributes to the tendency of the emergence of segregated schools in which Roma are often found. Another issues to combines with is civil society, both in terms of its organized form - non-profit organizations so from the point of view of its subjectively perceived component so-called civility. In the theoretical part are presented the knowledge from these areas needed to understand the problems and to place the research part in the context. The methodological part of the thesis monitors the activities of non-profit organizations dealing with pre-school preparation of children from socially disadvantaged environment, their relationships and cooperation with state institutions, their role in the education process and factors contributing to the fact that these children are to a great extent provided with pre-school education by civil society organizations. One of the research questions concerns the role of these non-profit organizations in the inclusion of Roma children in the elementary school system