Prevention of social problems facing marginalized groups in Czech schools – a starting point to educational social work

Abstract

This study focused on educational social work practice consequences, specifically prevention of xenophobia and racism in Czech primary and secondary schools. The findings are from a research conducted among teachers and students of both primary and secondary schools in Zlin, Olomouc and Moravia-Silesia Regions from September 2014 to June 2015. The aim was to explore on the attitudes of teachers and young students to the ideas of multiculturalism. The presented results focus on the way multicultural education is conceived and understood. With regard to the current migration situation, the approach of both teachers and the young students to members of ethnic or religious minorities, from which Roma were the most often reflected by the two groups, seems of key importance as well.