Educational Leadership Based on Social Capital for Improving Quality of Private Secondary School

Jurnal Pendidikan, Islam
2017 Jurnal Pendidikan Islam   unpublished
This study aims to explain the leadership pattern of social capital based education for the quality improvement of private schools. The research is conducted at private Junior Secondary Level with a qualitative naturalistic approach. This location is in Sleman District. The subject consists of selected cases purposively. The research procedure is carried out by four steps and methods of obtaining the data through observation, in-depth interview, and documentation. Data analysis was carried out
more » ... y inductive model while the level of trust result of research was undertaken by fulfilling criteria of credibility, transferability, dependability and conformability. The research findings are as follows. First, the concept of leadership of social capital based education rests on the ability of principals to influence school resources to achieve goals through an integrated pattern of trust dimensions, reciprocal relationships and networking. Second, school quality can be improved through a) school leadership in recognizing social capital, b) school leadership in utilizing social capital, c) school leadership in functioning social capital. Third, the utilization of social capital based on leadership in private schools in the form of a) bridging stakeholder aspirations both initiated by schools and stakeholders; b) bonding stakeholder relations with schools; c) following up or responding to stakeholder resources in school programs as a perspective new leadership at school. Abstrak Studi ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan pola kepemimpinan pendidikan berbasis modal sosial untuk peningkatan mutu sekolah swasta. Penelitian dilakukan di jenjang sekolah menengah pertama swasta dengan pendekatan kualitatif naturalistik. Lokasinya di Kabupaten Sleman. Subjek terdiri kasus yang dipilih secara purposive. Prosedur penelitian ditempuh dengan empat langkah dan metode penggalian data melalui observasi, wawancara mendalam, dan dokumentasi. Analisis data dilakukan dengan model induktif sedangkan tingkat kepercayaan hasil-hasil penelitian ditempuh dengan 450 cara terpenuhinya kriteria kredibilitas, transferabilitas, dependabilitas dan konformabilitas. Temuan penelitian adalah sebagai berikut. Pertama, konsep kepemimpinan pendidikan berbasis modal sosial bertumpu pada kemampuan kepala sekolah mempengaruhi sumber daya sekolah untuk mencapai tujuan melalui pola terintegrasi antara dimensi kepercayaan, hubungan resiprocal dan networking. Kedua, mutu sekolah dapat ditingkatkan melalui a) kepemimpinan sekolah dalam mengenali modal sosial, b) kepemimpinan sekolah dalam memanfaatkan modal sosial, c) kepemimpinan sekolah dalam mendayagunakan modal sosial. Ketiga, pemanfaatan modal sosial dalam kepemimpinan berbasis modal sosial di sekolah swasta dalam bentuk a) menyambung aspirasi stakeholders baik yang diinisiasi oleh sekolah maupun stakeholder, b) mempererat relasi stakeholders dengan sekolah, c) menindaklanjuti atau merespons sumber daya stakeholders dalam program sekolah sebagai bentuk perspektif baru kepemimpinan di sekolah.
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