Principal’s Leadership to Improve the Quality of Early Childhood Education in the 4.0 Era
- DOI
- 10.2991/icei-19.2019.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- principals’ leadership; early childhood education; 4.0 era
- Abstract
School principals are an internal school entity possessing a strategic influence on the creation and realization the quality of school. Leadership is considered relevant for improving the quality of quality of Early Childhood Education (ECE) in responding the 4.0 era. Therefore, this study contributes to outline knowledge, skills, and personal traits needed by principals at ECE to respond the fourth industrial revolution. The data collection methods employed was in-depth interview to 10 selected ECE principals and documentation. Questionnaire was also used to gain the data about school principals’ leadership skill. Finding shows that school principals’ leadership competencies needed in the 4.0 era are understanding principals’ role as leader of learning, leader of student entitlement, leader of capacity building, leader of community, and leader of resource management. Among those competencies, principals at ECE thought that school principal role as a leader of resource management is the most important aspect that impact to school leadership success in improving the quality of ECE. This study also reveals that a good school principal should perform good emotional intelligences that are self-awareness, social awareness, relationship management, and self-management.
- Copyright
- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Hernik Farisia AU - Mukhlisah PY - 2019/12 DA - 2019/12 TI - Principal’s Leadership to Improve the Quality of Early Childhood Education in the 4.0 Era BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 269 EP - 272 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icei-19.2019.4 DO - 10.2991/icei-19.2019.4 ID - Farisia2019/12 ER -