IMPROVING STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN BUILDING THE SCHOOL RULES BASED ON “3P” PRINCIPLE: A CASE STUDY IN SD MUHAMMADIYAH 16 SOLO

Abstract

As we know, every school needs the specific rules to control the students activities in the classroom and school. It is due to the fact that students need protection in the school. The school rule is also used to make the students safe and feel at home when they are in the school. It is as one of the consequences of Child friendly school. The purpose of this study is to improve students’ participation in building the school rules based on 3P Principle in SD Muhammadiyah 16 Solo. This study applies a qualitative descriptive approach. The data are taken documents and informants. The techniques for collecting data used in this study are from content-analysis, questionnaire and in deep-interviewing. The collected data are analyzed by using interactive analysis. The results of the study show that first the school rule is built by using bottom – up system. Second, there are 28 items of the school rule implemented by SD Muhammadiyah 16 Surakarta. Third, the students feel happy to obey the rules. Finally the participation of students, students’ parents, school committee, teachers and headmaster in contributing to build school rule are improved.