Educational Strategy through School-Based Management

Abstract

 Education is one of the critical concerns of society, and the education sector will be required to make an essential contribution to preparing qualified human resources in the future. On the other hand, the low quality of human resources in Indonesia still gives rise to various polemics and problems of its own, which have an impact on reducing the quality of education and human resources. In this era of regional autonomy, all aspects of community life which were initially regulated centrally or centrally have changed to a decentralized system, including education. Implementing centralized or centralized policies causes educational units or schools to lose their independence, creativity, and initiative in making the necessary policies.

This research aims to describe the implementation of school-based management and the factors driving and inhibiting its successful implementation. This research uses a qualitative approach with research procedures that produce descriptive data. The research location is in one of the private high schools in Malang City. Determining research subjects in this study used purposive sampling and snowball sampling techniques. Data was collected using several techniques: observation, interviews, questionnaires, documentation, and field notes. Data analysis techniques in this research were carried out by condensing, presenting, and drawing conclusions or verification. The research results show that school-based management has been running quite well. However, several things still need to be considered in terms of communication, resources, disposition, and bureaucracy.