Dr. Virajith Gamage

Assistant Professor | School of Education | Faculty of Humanities & Sciences

CAREER SUMMARY

  • Senior Lecturer (HG), School of Science and Education, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT (from May 2021)

  • Senior Lecturer, Department of Institutional Development, National Institute of Education.

  • Visiting lecturer in Education, Faculty of Humanities, University of Kelaniya.

  • External Examiner, Master of Education Programme, Faculty of Education, University of Colombo.

  • Principal, Department of Education, Ministry of Education

  • In Service Advisor, Department of Education, Ministry of Education

  • Sri Lanka Teacher Service, Department of Education, Ministry of Education

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

  • PhD - (Faculty of Education, University of Colombo)
  • MEd - (Faculty of Education, University of Colombo)
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Education - (Faculty of Education, University of Colombo)
  • BA - University of Sri Jayawardanapura
  • National Diploma in Teaching – (Nilwala College of Education)

HONOURS AND AWARDS

  • World Bank (HETC-window 3) Scholarship for Doctoral Studies 

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND MEMBERSHIP

Research Interests

  • Action Research
  • Second Language Education
  • Teaching and Learning

Memberships

  • Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Education

PUBLICATIONS

  • Conference Presentations 2013

    Survey of the Status of Teaching Second National Language Sinhala in Tamil Medium Schools

    Virajith Gamage,

  • Conference Presentations 2014

    Challenges in Teaching Sinhala as the Second National Language in Tamil Medium Schools

    Virajith Gamage,

  • Conference Presentations 2015

    Teaching Second National Language in Tamil Schools: the case of the Batticaloa District in Sri Lanka

    Virajith Gamage,

  • Conference Presentations 2015

    Path to Peace: A Study into the role of Second National Language in Achieving Social Integration in Sri Lanka

    Virajith Gamage,

  • Conference Presentations 2015

    Influence of Human factors on Second National Language Sinhala in Tamil Medium Schools

    Virajith Gamage,

  • Conference Presentations 2016

    දෙවන ජාතික භාෂාව සිංහල, 6 ශ්‍රේණිය පෙළපොත පිළිබඳ විශ්ලේෂණයක්

    Virajith Gamage, (annual research symposium)

  • Conference Presentations 2017

    දෙවන ජාතික භාෂාව සිංහල,ඉගෙනුම් ඉගැන්වීම් ක්‍රියාවලිය,විෂයභාර ගුරුවරුන් හා ඔවුන්ගේ ස්වභාවය

    Virajith Gamage, (international research symposium)

  • Journal Publications 2020

    දෙමළ මාධ්‍ය පාසල් දෙවන බස සිංහල විෂයය ඉගැන්වීමේ දී මුහුණපාන අභියෝග (මඩකලපුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කය ඇසුරින්),

    Virajith Gamage, “ශ්‍රී ලංකා අධ්‍යාපන පර්යේෂණ සගරාව, පර්යේෂණ සහ සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, ජාතික අධ්‍යාපන ආයතනය. ”

  • Journal Publications 2020

    දෙවන බස සිංහල විෂයයේ ඉගෙනුම හා ඉගැන්වීම සම්බන්ධ ගුරුවරුන්ගේ ස්වභාවය

    Virajith Gamage, “Shiksha, Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Education”

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