INTERRELATIONS BETWEEN MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND TEACHERS' READINESS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CROSS-CULTURAL EDUCATION IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

The article describes theoretical discussions and the results of research work on a topical problem in ethnically heterogeneous classes in primary school and a teacher's readiness to conduct study process and organize out-of-class work in these classes. Theoretical discussion is based on the statements made by Bank, J.A. Brunner, J.S. Dirba, M. Holzkamp. The article reveals the theoretical model for the process of developing cross-cultural competence. Interacting with environment, having received a corresponding pedagogical guidance, a child acquires personal experience. It must be stressed that the value system of an individual is acquired already in childhood during socialization. The analysis of values and integration into the individual's value system indicates about the individual aspect, the presence of attitude process. As cross-cultural education is a dialogue, we have to conclude that it also refers to a teacher as a partner of the dialogue.