Learning Support of National Minority Pupils with Respect to their Scale of Values

AbstractThe Czech Republic is, similarly to countries both inside and outside of Europe, gradually becoming a multicultural society. More and more frequently may one encounter foreign and immigrants’ children, in Czech schools. The issue of whether the schools are ready for such influx was already examined by the second author of the paper several years ago. That time the emphasis was directed to general knowledge of foreign children’ cultures, traditions, habits, religion and differences in communication, and to the needs to increase this knowledge with respect to their upbringing and education of these children. During recent years the number of children with a different socio-cultural background has rapidly increased in the Czech Republic. This paper deals with the scale of values. First, we introduce the main objectives and results of a pre-research whose aim was survey the scale of values among children of foreigners living in the Czech Republic. This part is followed by presentation of the results of a recent survey which followed the previous one. Finally, we briefly discuss a possibility of multimedia study materials supporting self-preparation of pedagogues working with these children