Abstract:
Every single person firms their existence in this world since their birth. Even though, human behaviours
are highly influenced and shaped by environmental, social and cultural factors. The new challenges
faced by human beings, the ways of handling those challenges and the multiple experience in every
age categories contribute to the personality development of human beings. A child is going to preschool
in the initial stage of understanding its own desires and environmental scenarios which help to
develop aesthetic values and self-understanding. Therefore, a child started to understand
himself/herself in the pre-school stage. In this regard, this study was conducted in order to exemplify
whether the pre-school teaching and learning activities and the pre-school environment help to develop
personality and the skills of the pre-school students. This study was conducted in Digana Located in
Kandy district by selecting 3 pre-schools. Questionnaires, key-informant interviews and observation
were applied in order to collect primary data among teachers, students, parents about teaching and
learning process and related activities, teaching and learning environment. The relevant books, research
articles, reliable web sources, newspaper articles and records were used as secondary data source for
this research. This research was analysed by using descriptive analysis method and critical analysis method.
