දහම් පාසල් අධ්‍යාපනය කෙරෙහි සිසුන් දක්වන ආකල්ප පිළිබඳ මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක අධ්‍යයනයක් [A psychological study on students' attitudes towards Dhamma school education]

In order to facilitate the task of conducting social relations by any society to its new members, it is called task education, which presents the evaluations, beliefs, values and certain symbolic things accepted by that society. Here, a unique values learning process takes place through Dhamma school education and the main objective of this investigation was to study the attitudes of the students. In any education, the attitudes shown by the students are different and depending on the nature of the attitudes, negative attitudes and positive attitudes can be seen. Accordingly, this study is based on the study of negative and positive attitudes of students towards Sunday school education. To achieve that objective, a sample of 40 students was selected and among these students between the ages of 10 and 17 were selected. A mixed sample was administered to include students who frequently attend Sunday school and students who rarely attend Sunday school. Methods such as questionnaires, interviews, and observations were used to collect data for this study and qualitative and quantitative research methods were used to interpret the data. A questionnaire based on children's attitudes towards Dhamma school education was selected for the quality of the study. Parents' opinions were also obtained for the correctness of the students' information and since this study was done within the temple environment, it was also easy to conduct the research. Therefore, the quality of the data collected also led to transparency. According to this research, it was found that there are more students who come to Sunday school of their own accord, and students who do not come to Sunday school due to factors such as extra classes and lack of clothes were also identified. Through this study, it was evident how students have a positive attitude towards Dhamma school education and suggestions were made for the promotion of Dhamma school education.