COOPERATIVE LEARNING AS A DETERMINANT OF SOCIALIZATION OF ROMA PUPILS IN PRIMARY EDUCATION

If the education of Roma pupils is to be effective, it should respect the peculiarities of their initial situation and offer openness, flexibility, and variability of approach. It's about the ability to formulate broader conceived and current educational goals in purviews of known individual needs of pupils and local specificities, the ability to create and utilize a multicultural educational environment. One of the necessary requirements of positive change that emerges from a reality presented in this way is the achievement of aimed and at the same time synergistic formation of cognitive, emotional and conative components of attitude of Roma pupils. The development happens primarily through intentional induction of pupil activities in the form of situations and tasks of creative nature, problem solving and use of methods, forms and aids that do not allow for the creation of thought stereotypes. One of the strategies employed in this process is cooperative learning. The article offers a theoretical and methodological determination of an actual exploratory research study aimed at cooperative learning in discourse of the specifics of socialization of Roma pupils in the educational practice of primary schools.