Character Development of Effective School Leadership

Achadi B Santosa

Abstract


The national problems occur lately is suspected to have started from role model crisis in education. The character development that becomes the focus of this research is one of the useful alternatives for the appearance of exemplary leaders in the school environment. The concept of the exemplary character development derives from the values of the nation's personality and contemporary thinking. Through documents study with qualitative approach, this research revealed the concept of classical leadership by Ki Hajar Dewantara (2004) which was explored from the personality values that grow in Indonesian society and the concept of millenial leadership model by Stephen R. Covey (2004), which is very beneficial for the development of leadership effectiveness in schools. The results showed that the education success is determined by the exemplary leadership of schools played by teachers and principals. Successful school leaders emerge from exemplary characteristics, exemplary physical due to good behavior. Good behavior is formed through habituation.

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