Study on how initial teacher education prepares student teachers to deal with diversity in the classroom: research report from Slovenia

Based on the concept of diversity defined in the context of this study, the population of Slovenia can be divided into three main groups of learners. First there are Italian and Hungarian minorities which are defined as national minorities. The second group are Roma communities. Roma are recognised as an ethnic minority. Both groups have constitutional rights.1 There is also a third group, that of migrant learners (EU and non-EU)