Analysis of the Needs of Parents in Mentoring Early Childhood During Learning from Home

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10.2991/assehr.k.201112.039How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Parents’ Needs, Mentoring, Early Childhood, Learning from Home

Abstract

Since Covid-19, the government has established policies to minimize the spread of the virus, one of which is by maximizing learning from students’ homes. This policy further strengthens the role of parents as the first and foremost education. However, not a few parents have problems mentoring their children while learning from home, especially in early childhood. The purpose of this research is to analyze the needs of parents in mentoring early childhood during learning from home. This research uses a quantitative approach with descriptive methods. Data collection was carried out by distributing questionnaires. Respondents in this study placed 267 parents in Bendo District, Magetan Regency, East Java, Indonesia, determined by proportional random sampling technique. The analysis used is proportion analysis using descriptive statistics. The results showed that as many as 82,20% of parents need mentoring in parenting their children while learning from home is extremely important. Parents need mentor through non-formal education programs. These results are supported by the suitability of the results for each sub-variable including: (1) the need of knowledge to mentor the children by the percentage of 80,43%; (2) the need of parenting skills in mentoring children by the percentage of 85,58%; (3) the need of social support in mentoring children by the percentage of 82,96%; (4) the need of motivation and self-management of parents needed by the percentage of 82,21%; and (5) the need of self-esteem of parents needed by the percentage of 79,86%.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - R. Anggia Listyaningrum
AU  - Monica Widyaswari
AU  - Nastiti Novita Sari
AU  - Dias Putri Yuniar
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/12
TI  - Analysis of the Needs of Parents in Mentoring Early Childhood During Learning from Home
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Early Childhood and Primary Childhood Education (ECPE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 223
EP  - 229
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201112.039
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201112.039
ID  - Listyaningrum2020
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