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Di abad 21 ini, modernitas dengan segenap kemajuan teknologi dan pesatnya industrialisasi membuat manusia kehilangan orientasi moral. Keterampilan manusia semakin hebat, kekayaan materi semakin menumpuk tetapi moral semakin mengalami penurunan dan kekosongan. Demikian pula adanya persaingan hidup yang semakin kompetitif dapat membawa manusia mudah stress dan frustasi. Pola hidup hedonisme dan materialisme semakin digemari, saat manusia tidak bisa menghadapi persoalan hidupnya, cenderung mengambil jalan pintasnya seperti mencuri, korupsi, flexing, bahkan banyak yang bunuh diri.

Apa yang ditulis oleh Mohammad Zakki menegaskan tentang pentingnya orang yang memiliki kepribadian berkarakter. Hal ini sejalan dengan Undang-Undang Republik Indonesia Nomor 20 tahun 2003 tentang Sistem Pendidikan Nasional (UU Sisdiknas) pasal 3 yang menyebutkan, “Pendidikan nasional berfungsi mengembangkan dan membentuk watak serta peradaban bangsa yang bermartabat dalam rangka mencerdaskan kehidupan bangsa, bertujuan untuk berkembangnya potensi peserta didik agar menjadi manusia yang beriman dan bertakwa kepada Tuhan Yang Maha Esa, berakhlak mulia, sehat, berilmu, cakap, kreatif, mandiri, dan menjadi warga negara yang demokratis serta bertanggung jawab”.

Buku ini untuk mendalami ilmu tentang Model-Model Pembelajaran yang mengacu pendapat-pendapat berbagai pandangan dari berbagai tokoh pendidikan, cocok untuk dibaca semua pembelajar, guru, dosen dan semua pemerhati pendidikan dapat dijadikan bahan referensi.

A case-study approach is presented to demonstrate how the practices of Situational Leadership, a management theory developed by Hersey and Blanchard (2001), by school principals are able to make them more receptive to educational innovation in school programmes. Situational Leadership factors provide practical situational knowledge of school principals' leadership style to teachers as the object of the principals' programmes. Situational Leadership has several strengths particularly for practitioners and it provides a straightforward approach that is easily applied in a variety of settings including in educational leadership for shaping excellent school leadership and school achievement. The subjects of this study were 297 teachers from five Pondok of learning in Indonesia. The data obtained from this study were analyzed by using Exploratory Factor analysis and varimax rotation method to reduce unrelated factors and to identify if all items had been practiced by the principals. Besides that, factor analysis is also applied on both pilot and actual variables for reliability and validity to identify the underlying factors. Moreover, descriptive analysis methods show the demographic data of the respondents as well as one-way Anova and t-test analysis. Both methods are conducted to compare teachers' perception on the characteristics of Situational Leadership practiced by their principals. The respondents stated that they were aware that their principals used all four situational leadership styles in managing their staff. This means that the school principals had the ability to handle the teachers in a particular environment and they preferred using participative styles; some even went to considerable lengths to avoid delegating. The teachers combined administrative work with teaching to run all school activities to determine the developmental level of the individuals or groups in relation to a specific task that the leader was attempting to accomplish. Hence, the school principals were also willing to share ideas and provide opportunity for clarification before facilitating teachers in decision-making process. However, the construct of Situational Leadership readiness of the followers was questioned, and directions for further research into some of the hypotheses generated by this study are proposed.