Strengthening Students' Character as Authentic Learners: Effects of Advanced School Leadership and Boost Learning

DOI

10.2991/acec-18.2018.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

authentic learner; school leadership; strengthening character education

Abstract

Improving the 2013 national curriculum and strengthening character education in schools remains a challenge for Indonesia. The role of school leadership remains an incomplete issue. This study aims to examine the influence of school leadership on the reinforcement of character education and the character of students as authentic learners. This cross-sectional survey collected data from students, teachers and school principals from 28 randomly selected West Java junior high schools. Using the educational production function model, the study found that the quality of school leadership had an impact on teachers' ability to develop character-based learning and consequently on the growth of student characters as authentic learner. The results show that character education will be more successful with the guidance of the principal as an agent of change, whereby they are able to influence teachers to change their instructional behavior toward character-based learning.

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© 2018, 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  - Dasim Budimansyah
AU  - Hardi Selamat Hood
AU  - Iik Nurulpaik
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Strengthening Students' Character as Authentic Learners: Effects of Advanced School Leadership and Boost Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the Annual Civic Education Conference (ACEC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 323
EP  - 328
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/acec-18.2018.75
DO  - 10.2991/acec-18.2018.75
ID  - Budimansyah2018/11
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