Abstract:

Abstract A leader with entrepreneurial skills facilitates students to be creative, innovative, and have entrepreneurship enthusiasm, to be ready to adapt to the working demands. The school principal’s entrepreneurship commitment resolves the issues of the current working competition. Meanwhile, the school principal’s entrepreneurship attitude based on Wanua Mappatuo Naewai Alena cultural value can be exclusive excellence that supports entrepreneurship education. This study seeks to contribute to local culture-based schools’ entrepreneurship programs in shaping students’ life skills and independence. In-depth interviews, observation, and documentation were used to obtain the data, which were then analyzed through stages of data condensation, data presentation, and conclusion formulation. The data validity was investigated from the degree of trustworthiness, dependability, compatibility, and assertiveness. The findings suggest that the principal’s leadership strategy based on Wanua Mappatuo Naewai Alena culture from Luwu carries a positive influence on the school entrepreneurship program. Besides, a great entrepreneurship environment is observed to enhance the teachers’ and students’ innovation and independence.

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