This study aimed to explore how teacher candidates (TCs) from Serbia and Slovenia understand the level of responsibility that they feel towards vulnerable pupils in mainstream elementary schools. Specifically, the study sought to elicit teacher candidates’ views about division of responsibility
for the academic achievement and additional support of vulnerable pupils and their views on the factors that most affect learning difficulties in those pupils. The findings suggest that participants from both faculties perceive the teacher and the parents as very important, in terms of responsibility for academic achievements and in terms of providing learning support to the pupil. Parents and teachers are also described as factors that affect a pupil’s learning difficulties, but the pupil’s disability is seen as more important. More