The Role of Parents in Student Education During Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the pattern of society’s life whether in the economic, social, educational and healthy environment to a new normative situation. In terms of education, schools and educational institutions had to be closed as long as the MCO Movement Control Order was gazetted. Many students and teachers are unable to attend school normally due to restrictions on social interaction. As a result, parents have to take over the task of teaching and monitoring their children's online learning at home (PdPr) which requires them to master various subjects, provide internet access and ensure adequate teaching materials. This requires parents to play a very important role in preserving the continuity of student education during the COVID-19 pandemic so that students are not left behind in learning when educational institutions open later. Thus, this study was conducted to examine the pattern of education during the COVID-19 pandemic, identify the role of parents in student learning at home and analyze the readiness of students in facing teaching and learning at home (PdPr). The methodology of this study is qualitative using content analysis design through the method of data collection by a document analysis of books, journal articles, proceedings and akbar related to the title and analyzed descriptively to answer the objectives of the study. The majority of findings of the study show that the role of parents is directly involved in monitoring, providing ongoing encouragement and assisting in student learning activities at home through various applications or digital platforms such as Whatsapp, Google Classroom, Zoom, Webex and Youtube. Further research is proposed to be conducted quantitatively to analyze the level of readiness of students and parents towards digital application based education in new norm and identify the challenges faced by students, parents and educators.