Spiritual Leadership Management in Strengthening the Character of Students in Integrated Islamic Primary Schools

Abstract

This research aims at describing the sources, programs, and strategies of spiritual leadership management in strengthening the character of students in integrated Islamic primary schools. This research is a qualitative descriptive study. The instruments used are observation, interview, and documentation. Through this paper, we describe the sources that build student character values, the principal's spiritual leadership programs in strengthening the character of students, and the spiritual leadership strategies of principals. The results show that the sources that build student character values are from religion, nation, education, culture and norms. The principal's spiritual leadership program is integrated into curricular and extracullicular activities, habitution, and behaviour models; and the spiritual leadership strategy is carried out through exemplary, vision, mission and school goals, school distinctiveness icons, simulation and character building workshop, school activities and programs, and school management structure in charge of school culture and character.

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