Yasser Ahmad Noor Hafidz, Bambang Budi Wiyono, Ali Imron, Ahmad Suriansyah
Values-based leadership education has become very important to implaments as the moral degradation of students continues. A principles, in this case as a leader of a school, should be able to collaborate and synergise the components of the school. Some of these components include teachers, students and other school employees. Based on the results of preliminary studies, there are similarities and differences in transformational leadership principals characterized by Islam. This study was conducted to see: (1) the values of transformational leadership as characterized by basic principals of Islam; (2) implementation of the transformational value of a primary school principal, characterized by Islam; and (3) the factors supporting and elementary school principal transformational leadership as characterized by Islam. The approach used in this study is a qualitative approach with a phenomenological type of study design; multi-cases and constant comparative method. Data was collected using in-depth interviews, participant observation and documentation techniques. Informants were selected using a purposive technique combined with the snowball sampling technique. Through this study, the research findings obtained show that elementary school leadership is characterized by the religion of Islam, generally derived from the values of aqidah, syariah and morals. © 2019, Primrose Hall Publishing Group.
Department of Educational Management, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia; Department of Educational Administration, Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia; Department of Educational Management, Lambung Mangkurat University, Indonesia
