"Identification and Analysis of Learning Difficulties Faced by Students in Civics Learning in Grade IV Students of SDN 47 Korong Gadang

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Students' learning difficulties in Civics subjects will have an impact on student learning progress towards these subjects if left unchecked and not immediately addressed, then parents, teachers, and the government hope for successful learning to achieve national education goals and the mandate of the opening of the 1945 Constitution, which is to educate people's lives. nation is difficult. Thus, it is very important to get attention to be addressed immediately. Therefore, the researcher conducted a study entitled "Identification and Analysis of Learning Difficulties Faced by Students in Civics Learning in Class IV SDN 47 Korong Gadang, Padang City" Learning difficulties are a condition in a learning process that is marked by certain obstacles to achieve learning outcomes so that the results obtained are below what they should be. The obstacles experienced may or may not be realized by those who experience them, and can be sociological, psychological or physiological in the whole learning process (Mulyadi, 2010: 6). Learning difficulties are a condition in which students cannot learn properly due to obstacles or learning disorders which are marked by the failure of students to reach a certain level of qualification for learning outcomes. The type of data in this study used primary data and secondary data. This data was obtained through interviews, documentation, observation and answers to questions given in questionnaires to respondents or informants. In this study, the respondents or informants were teachers and parents. While secondary data is data that has been processed first. Secondary data sources are journals, books, government publications, and other supporting sources. Secondary data is the source from previous researchers (Moloeong 2018:17). Primary data were taken at SDN 47 Korong Gadang, Padang City, namely: first, interviews with teachers and parents of fourth grade students who were appointed as research subjects. Subjects consisted of four teachers 4 parents of fourth grade students. According to the source of retrieval, there are two types of primary and secondary data sources. Primary data sources are data sources that provide data directly to data collectors. While secondary data sources are data sources that provide data indirectly to data collectors, such as through documents or other people. Research data at SDN 47 Korong Gadang Padang City can be collected Primary data. Based on the results of the research, the factors that cause students' learning difficulties in Civics subjects at SDN 47 Korong Gadang are external factors and students' internal factors. As for what includes external factors are factors that come from the school environment and the student's family environment such as parents of students who do not accompany their children at home. Internal factors are factors from within the individual students. Ways to overcome learning difficulties for fourth grade students at SDN 47 Korong Gadang Padang City on Civics subjects are: (1) repeating the difficult learning material (2) conducting special guidance with the child when he comes home from school, (3) calling parents to help and guide the child in learning at home. Contributions in the family in overcoming learning difficulties are: (1) parents as teachers at home, (2) parents as facilitators, and (3) parents as motivators.