Diploma in Buddhist Early Childhood Development

Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to,

1. 1. Recognize the fundamentals of pre-school education and Buddhist education principles by focusing on the socio cultural and ethical issues of the pre-school systems. 
   2. Demonstrate effective communication skills in order to analyze and manage social relationships.
   3. Evaluate and understand the early childhood development principles with modern education principles.

• Engage in community activities more positively and actively.

Pre-school education can be considered as the foundational level of the early childhood development. Before entering to the pre- school, children get informal education through verbal and nonverbal communication with elders. However, the current formal pre-school system is not in satisfactory level to develop the skills of children. As a result of that, if we send four children to four different pre-schools, learning outcomes and skills of those children are different to one another. Lack of teaching experience and unsuitability of the pre-school teachers, artificial environment, teaching methods associating with foreign culture, inability to understand the skills of the children, unavailability of a proper syllabus can be considered as some of the major issues in present situation.  

This programme focuses on the traditional Buddhist teachings on education to uplift the early childhood development education system in Sri Lanka. The overall objective of this programme is to provide a better formal pre-school system based on Buddhism, which develops the humanitarian qualities of the children and introduce 6H concept for the skill and education development of the students.