Perspectives of Mothers and Children in Indonesian Private School during
Pandemic
Abstract
This study aims to explore parents and students’ perspective towards the
required learning from home amid the COVID-19 outbreak. Based on initial
observation and preliminary designed online survey to in a private
school in Jakarta, the research continued with in-depth interviews to
parents and children to gain understanding about the insights,
experiences, feelings and changes in attitudes and behavior towards the
impromptu online learning programs within the last three months. Results
showed that the maximal exposure to the home environment and the minimal
revelation to the environment outside home had given the external
factors to be more dominant during the online learning, and that
regardless how sophisticated the online learning circumstances were,
students tended to be fond of face-to-face environment at school.
Furthermore, changes in behavior due to the online learning, motives and
their challenges are also discussed, as well as the perspective towards
online learning environment compared to the regular school setting. The
researchers suggest that the Ministry of Education should establish a
new (permanent) and inclusive curriculum related to the online learning
occurrences.