Principals’ transformational leadership in strengthening character education at senior high school level (SMA) in Indonesia

Character education reinforcement in secondary schools is one of the educational programmes aimed at anticipating the tendency of moral perversion as a result of moral decadence. Various forms of moral deviations that occur among high school students result in them being alienated from life because they conflict with cultural norms, school discipline, and life ethics in society. In this article we aim to discuss the relation of character value reinforcement and the principal’s transformational leadership strategy to shape students’ characters in a descriptive-critical manner. The objective of this study was investigating school strategies for optimising the implementation of character education reinforcement. In this research we used a qualitative method with a case study design. The data validity measurement was based on the levels of credibility, transferability, dependability, and confirmability. The results emphasise the importance of shaping student character as an anticipatory step to minimise moral distortions among high school students, and the effectiveness of the principal’s transformational leadership role in optimising the implementation of education programmes for the strengthening of students’ characters in schools

中学品格教育强化（Character education reinforcement）是旨在应对道德颓废引发的道德失范倾向的教育举措之一。高中生群体中出现的各类道德偏差行为，会因与社会文化规范、学校规章制度及公共生活伦理相悖，导致学生陷入生活疏离状态。本文旨在以描述-批判的研究范式，探讨品格价值强化与校长变革型领导（transformational leadership）策略对学生品格塑造的关联作用。本研究的目标在于探究优化品格教育强化落地实施的学校策略。本研究采用质性研究方法，辅以个案研究设计。数据效度检验基于可信度、可迁移性、可依赖性与确证性四个维度展开。研究结果凸显了将学生品格塑造作为前置性举措以降低高中生道德失范风险的重要性，同时证实了校长变革型领导角色在优化学校学生品格强化教育项目落地方面的有效性。