An exploration of attitudes of pre-adolescent boys towards sunday school

Abstract

This thesis is a grounded theory study investigating the attitudes of preadolescent boys towards the traditional Sunday school. The first chapter focuses on the background and significance of the study. The second chapter contains a brief interaction with literature related to the topic of concern. The focus in this chapter is on the definition of the term attitudes and the link between attitudes and behaviour. The third chapter justifies the research model and deals exhaustively with the methods and procedures that I used to investigate the attitudes of boys to the traditional Sunday school. Chapter four summarizes the findings of the field interviews, namely the strong polarity of the boys' attitudes and the surprising ambivalence towards their teachers. These findings are in turn related to the main aspects of attitudes using relevant literature on the subject. This chapter concludes with a proposed theoretical model to account for the boys' attitudes. Chapter five, the concluding chapter, contains pertinent recommendations arising out of the findings of the research and some suggestions for further research.