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Divide participants into small groups of 5 – 6 participants and allocate 15minutes for them to analyse the
relevant cases. (As per STAR Structure) (using Case studies 1,2,3,4 below)
Case Study I
Sachini is a grade 2 student. A number of students in her class contracted viral fever last week and Sachini too was
sick last Wednesday and came home with a friend of hers. At night her parents took her to a doctor and took medicines. But the following morning once again she was sick and could not go to school. Sachini’s father is a teacher
and mother is a clerk. It was essential for one of the parents to remain home with Sachini. Father said that he
couldn’t remain since there was a special function at school. Mother stayed home by obtaining a leave since she
only had ordinary office work for the day.
Analysis
Sachini is a grade 2 student. Her mother is a clerk and father is a teacher.
Father could not stay house with Sachini as he had some special duty at school and asked mother
to stay with Sachini.
Mother stays home with Sachini
Mother’s office work piles up while father attends to work at school.
Case Study 2
The Ranasinghe family has 3 children. Ranasinghe made a living by cultivating a plot of land of nearly one acre
extent and he too died a year ago. The eldest of the three is a nurse (daughter Chamila). She is married and lives
outside the village. Elder son (Dhanushka) attends to the cultivation while working in a factory in the town. Younger
son (Indika) is a teacher. He is married and lives in the town. After the death of the father, Indika proposed to sell
the farm land. Chamila too agreed to it, but Dhanushka said that he and his children could look after the work of the
land as his father did. He proposed to share ½ the income of the land with the brother and sister. Everybody agreed
to that.
Case Study 3
Chandrasena works as a security officer attached to Simline Garments Factory. One day the son of a Member of
Parliament entered the factory in his luxury car. He tried to park his car in the slot allotted to the Manager’s car.
Chandrasena then requested him not to park the car there. But the son of the MP disregarded that request and parked
the car there saying that he had come for an important discussion with the Manager and entered the building,
Case Study 4
Sandamali has worked as the Secretary of the principal of a Vocational Training Centre for 6 years. Two weeks ago
an MP called and asked for an appointment with the principal. The appointment was set at 2 p.m. the following
Tuesday and Sandamali informed this to the principal. The principal however had to go to Colombo for an official
matter on that day. The principal asked Sandamali to inform the Deputy Principal to meet the MP. As planned the
MP visited the school. Sandamali explained the situation and accompanied the MP to the Deputy Principal.
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