Unity in diversity in terms of inclusive education and cooperative learning

Inclusive education is an expression of the educational system transformation and the transfer from focusing on adapting a pupil with special needs to school onto adapting teaching conditions to the pupul’s special needs. In this context, inclusive education is shown as a specific kind of intervening into the process of an individual’s socialisation having a double character of changes: in people, and in culture, which supports people’s development and building the inclusive society, in which people can experience unity in diversity. Cooperative learning is an educational strategy, which makes it possible to create a pro-inclusive social context and to develop pupills’ cognitive and social competencies necessary to function in a heterogenic community. The deliberations can be completed with the analysis of the selected factors conditioning cooperative learning in relation to pupils with disabilities and their non-disabled schoolmates. They are: (1) experience related to cooperation; (2) personal characteristics of pupils and (3) pupils’ preferences related to exercising task roles.