Primary and Secondary School Principals' Leadership Dilemma and Its Transcendence in the Age of Digital Intelligence: Enlightenment Based on Quantum Leadership
In the digital-intelligent era where digital technology and intelligent technology are deeply integrated, phenomena such as the diversification of knowledge subjects, the integration of virtual and real contexts, the rapid evolution of digital-intelligent technology, and the multidimensional fission of information are reshaping the relationships between the agents and recipients of education. These changes have disrupted the traditional boundaries of school governance, subverted conventional teaching thinking patterns, and intensified the variability of the school environment. As a result, principals of primary and secondary schools are facing leadership challenges char-acterized by a crisis of subjectivity, a lack of holistic governance, constraints on innovative development, and insufficient endogenous growth. The root causes can be attributed to the traditional leadership paradigm, which is based on the Newtonian classical philosophical worldview. This paradigm exhibits limitations such as reductive cognition, fragmented governance, a pursuit of stability, and exogenous motivation, which obscure the subjectivity of "members", restrict the holistic nature of reform, suppress organizational creativity, and hinder endogenous growth, making it incompatible with the governance needs of schools in the digital-intelligent era. In contrast, quan-tum leadership, based on the quantum philosophical worldview, possesses multifaceted characteristics such as agility, innovation, inclu-siveness, and flexibility. It can achieve transcendence in terms of motivational mechanisms, ways of thinking, interactive relationships, and philosophical assumptions, offering new insights for principals of primary and secondary schools. Therefore, principals can embark on the path to quantum leadership through practical approaches such as self-changing Vipassana, trans-boundary collaboration, digital-in-telligent drive, and culture breeding.
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