THE ROLE OF MADRASAH HEADS IN STRENGTHENING RELIGIOUS CULTURE IN MADRASAH TSANAWIYAH
A CASE STUDY-BASED CONCEPTUAL STUDY AT MTS AL-MA'ARIF RASAU JAYA
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https://doi.org/10.30868/ei.v15i04.10864Keywords:
Head of Madrasah; Religious Culture; Islamic Education Leadership; Madrasah Tsanawiyah; Transformational LeadershipAbstract
This study aims to analyze the role of madrasah heads in strengthening religious culture in madrasah education units, by focusing on the dimensions of religious, managerial, and motivational leadership and their relationship with worship habits, the formation of religious values and attitudes, and the creation of a religious symbolic environment. Data were obtained through a narrative literature review of Islamic education leadership theory, with a focus on the leadership of school/madrasah principals and the development of religious culture in Islamic educational institutions. The results of the study show that madrasah heads have a strategic role in building religious culture through the establishment of religious policies, management of habituation programs, providing examples, strengthening motivation, and creating a madrasah environment that supports the internalization of Islamic values. The effectiveness of strengthening religious culture is not only determined by formal policies, but also by the consistency of the example of the head of the madrasah, the involvement of all madrasah residents, and the ability of leadership in adapting religious programs to local social and cultural characteristics. The originality of the research lies in a conceptual synthesis that integrates the three dimensions of the role of the head of the madrasah of religious, managerial, and motivational leadership with three forms of religious culture in the form of habituation of worship, values and attitudes, as well as the symbolic religious environment, as well as mapping the research gap in the context of regional private madrasas, especially MTs Al-Ma'arif Rasau Jaya, Kubu Raya Regency, West Kalimantan. This framework is the basis for further field research with a qualitative case study approach.
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