POLA KOMUNIKASI KELUARGA DALAM MEMBENTUK KEMANDIRIAN BELAJAR ANAK DI MASA PANDEMI COVID-19 (STUDI PADA KELUARGA DI KABUPATEN KOTAWARINGIN BARAT)

ABSTRACT Iskandar, Lisa Indriyani, 201610040311246. FAMILY COMMUNICATION PATTERNS IN FORMING CHILDREN'S LEARNING INDEPENDENCE DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (Study on Families in West Kotawaringin Regency). Thesis, Department of Communication Studies, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Muhammadiyah Malang. Supervisor: Zen Amiruddin, M.Med.Kom Communication is a contact relationship between and between humans, both individuals, and groups. In a family, intense and quality communication between family members is needed. That way a communication pattern will be formed so that they have mutual understanding and a family will achieve the same goal. One of the important roles in the family is the role of education for children. In the Covid-19 pandemic situation, the West Kotawaringin Regency Government, Central Kalimantan Province, has established the Corona Virus Pandemic Non-Natural Disaster Alert Status. Teaching and learning activities for PAUD, SD, SMP, and SMA students are temporarily closed and implementing an online learning system. This study aims to determine how the communication pattern families in shaping children's learning independence during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive basic type. Data collection techniques in the study used observation, interviews, and documentation techniques. And the subject is parents of students in West Kotawaringin Regency, After conducting this research, based on the pattern of family communication consisting of father, mother, and child, where the communication process they carried out to convey messages about children's education during the pandemic was direct and face-to-face. Communicants from the family are their children who are active in school. So that the message can be conveyed and have an effect in the form of a change in attitude to become more aware of education and children to be obedient to their parents during the Covid-19 pandemic