INVESTIGATION OF THE ROLE OF PRINCIPAL'S TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP FOR STRENGTHENING STUDENT CHARACTER IN INDONESIA

Character education reinforcement in secondary school is one of the
educational programs aimed to expect the tendency of moral perversion
because of moral decadence. Various forms of moral deviations result in
students being alienated from normal life. This article aims to discuss
character values reinforcement and the principal's transformational
leadership strategy to shape student characters in a descriptive-critical way.
The aims of this study are school strategies in optimizing to carry out
character education reinforcement. This research uses a qualitative method
with a case study design. Data analysis used a modified analytic analysis
method. Meanwhile, the data validity measurement was based on the level of
credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The results
emphasize the importance of shaping student character as an anticipatory
step to decrease moral distortions among high school students and the
effectiveness of the principal's transformational leadership role in optimizing
implementing character education strengthening programs in schools.