Sekolah unggulan: pendekatan pengembangan kapasitas sekolah

Abstract

One of the major themes in educational effectiveness research is about school capacity building. This study investigates the implementation of the International Standard School (SBI) policy in Indonesia which can be seen as an effort of school capacity building improvement in the particular country. Using program coherence dimension from capacity building framework, a qualitative study conducted in a secondary school that located in a small city in West Java, Indonesia, that involved in the program. It is found that the interpretation to the SBI policy was changing, which established international standard classrooms is the salient aspect of the implementation of the policy. It is discovered that become an SBI school has positive consequence with regard to acknowledgment its quality by the central government, besides the school can collect extra fund from parents with amount nearly ten times that received from the central government. Document analysis reveals the school difficulties to reach ‘international requirements’ with particular to master in English by its teachers.