Philippine E-Journals

MELANCHOLIC SENTIMENTS TOWARDS MODULAR LEARNING MODALITY: SINGLE PARENTS IN FOCUS

Victoria B Ornopia | Digna Minnie PC Africa

 

Abstract:

In the spring of 2020, schools across the globe closed their doors to decrease the spread of the viral outbreak during the COVID -19 pandemic. This physical closure led to a rapid shift to modular learning, which placed more responsibility on parents and guardians. Data were collected from 10 single parents falling in the inclusion criteria. Considering the lockdown problem, the data were collected via Google docs. This study aimed to investigate parents’ experiences and struggles through the use of thematic coding with the use of the essential theme; striving to balance parent employment demands and learner needs, strenuous assisting more than one child in the home with learning, lack of personal balance, and parent feels overwhelmed; maintaining a strict schedule; engaging in creative activities; keeping children busy and; organizing daily routine; tracking academic progress, keeping socio-emotional development, accessing of achievement, and identifying e emotional toll. The findings revealed and addressed the learning gap that has emerged in their children’s learning in these challenging times. Furthermore, single parents, being aware of how to manage their time, struggles, hardship and challenges to cope with their sentiment experiences, and challenges on how they can surpass and would be a strong basis for school administrators as this comes as an opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of different educational approaches and develop teaching and learning process suited to specific educational needs. Considering the result of this study, input from families should be sought to create a program and learning method that is beneficial to all school stakeholders.