HIKMAH Training Model: Fostering Creative Leadership for School Administrators of Islamic Private Schools in Southern Province of Thailand
Keywords:
HIKMAH training model, creative leadership, school administrators, Islamic private schools, southern ThailandAbstract
A newly creative leadership development HIKMAH training model was purposely designed and conducted to transform school administrators into an authentic creative leader in the innovation education. In this study, creative leadership is referred to the ability of school administrators to fuel vision, generate novel ideas, know what they want to do, have global and integrative perspective and combine collegiality to achieve the determined goals. Thus, this study aimed at examining the implications of HIKMAH training model for fostering creative leadership of school administrators as well as investigating their perceptions towards the model that was experimented on 30 purposively selected administrators of Islamic private schools affiliated with Assalam association in Southern Provinces of Thailand. Creative leadership behaviors of school administrators emerged during training were observed from given activities i.e., post-it events, drawing mind map, and school project proposal presentation. Perceptions towards HIKMAH training model for developing creative leadership was examined from questionnaires. The result of the study indicated that, throughout the training process, the school administrators displayed their creative leadership behaviors, thus assuring the effectiveness of the HIKMSH training model. Rather, positive perceptions towards the conducted training was empirically reaffirmed. The study then gives some implications for further practices in developing creative leadership attributes for school administrators.
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