School-Parent Collaboration in Internalizing Students' Spiritual Attitudes in the Pandemic Era (A Case Study on State Islamic Elementary Madrasa in Banyumas, Indonesia)

Abstract

This article describes the findings from a contemporary study of school-parent collaboration at State Islamic Elementary Madrasa 01 Banyumas, Indonesia. Recent education policy influenced by Pandemic-19 has, especially distance learning or working from home, made the schools find out special strategy to ensure the program runs well. In this situation, the collaboration plays an important role and it cannot be avoided. The method of collecting data used were, observation, depth-interview, and documentation. To ensure the validity of data, the author used source and technique triangulation. While, the informants are the madrasah principal, teachers, and parents. The result shows that there was no, in this pandemic era, special handicaps in practicing the parental collaboration, even it will be more effective. The internalization of spiritual attitude is still going on smoothly and several parents feel happy and comfortable in taking part of it. It is, according to author’s opinion, a good collaboration, because it does not have positive impact to students but also their parents.