Children's Roma Literary Protagonist with a Social Disadvantage in the Emotional Education

Abstract

Author of the paper deals with the current issue which is the co-existence of Romany students (Roma minority social group) coming from the socially disadvantage backgrounds and marginalized Roma communities together with the non-Roma students from the major society in Slovakia in school inclusion settings. In this process, the author attaches significant importance for the development not only of cognitive (intellectual quotient – IQ), but also of emotional intelligence (emotional quotient – EQ) of all the students through artistic pictures of the Roma people coming from socially disadvantaged backgrounds marked by poverty a compliance with internal rules of the Roma identity (romipen) in the Slovak literature for children and youth. In this regard, author roots in the artistic delineation of emotional world of the Romany child protagonist – boy Lajko in an auto-biographical novel from Romany writer Ľudovít Didi Stories blessed by the wind with the subtitle On the Romany soul, where the author displayed fates of people in very unusual way. Child literary protagonist from socially disadvantaged backgrounds perceives the social differences very sensitively in the intentions of own, minority society as well as in the co-existence of Roma and non-Roma people.  Observation and empathetic experiencing of the negative emotional world of Romany child protagonist, the author used within emotional education and development of emotional intelligence of Roma and non-Roma students in the school inclusion settings in Slovakia.