The Principal Leadership in Strengthening Elementary School Education Character

Keywords

school principal leadership, character education management, character education strengthening

Abstract

This study aimed to describe the character values developed, the management of character education, and the principal leadership in empowering the elementary school character. The research used a qualitative with multi-site design. Data was collected through snowball sampling through interviews, observation and documentation. The findings of this study are (1) the value of the characters developed are religious, nationalist, independent, mutual cooperation and integrity, (2) the management of character education includes: planning, organizing, implementing and supervising and evaluating, (3) in empowering the students character, the principal made themselves as being a motivator for his subordinates, creating a conducive school climate and culture, and being good models.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Juharyanto
AU  - Ahmad Yusuf Sobri
AU  - Ahmad Nurabadi
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - The Principal Leadership in Strengthening Elementary School Education Character
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education and Technology (ICET 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 248
EP  - 254
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125926655
ID  - 2018/12
ER  -