Pendidikan Homeschooling dan Modalitas Sosial Pelajar di dalam Keluarga

Abstract

This research is motivated by the concern of parents that their children will become victims of an unhealthy school environment and outside of school. Although not all children at school become perpetrators of violence. Through homeschooling, parents can actually better direct the development and growth of children according to their talents and interests. Because the results of this education are more personal and flexible. Parents feel that the child's education starts from the family. The family is a place for the development and growth of children. Some of the reasons behind parents choosing homeschooling include so that children have satisfactory learning achievements, poor school learning environment and religious reasons. Parents' concerns can be enlightened by the presence of homeschooling which seeks to meet the specific educational needs of the family because homeschooling does have a customized nature so that it can be adapted to the conditions of each family. This study aims to describe the modalities of students who take homeschooling education. This study uses the theory of DePorter and Hernacki and uses a descriptive research method with a qualitative approach. The method of taking the research subject is by using purposive sampling. While the data collection techniques are by means of observation, interviews, and documentation. The location of this research was conducted in Medan City, North Sumatra Province. The results obtained from this study indicate that teachers in homeschooling learning activities explain more about learning materials. Means, the teacher familiarizes students to learn with an auditory learning style. Of the 15 students who took homeschooling the most dominant applied the auditory learning style as many as 7 people, followed by the visual learning style 5 people and only 3 people had the characteristics of the kinesthetic learning style.