Reshaping Educational Leadership in ASEAN

This chapter reviews the changing nature of digitalization and innovation in the development of educational leadership in ASEAN. It underscores the shift to strategic innovation as a result of technological changes in the future of leadership practices where administrative management is replaced with artificial intelligence, big data, and digital platforms. The argument highlights the cultural norms, political reality and the use of technology, presenting both the difficulties, like resistance to change, digital divide, and ethical issues, and the possibilities of inclusive, adaptive leadership. Based on regional case studies, the chapter highlights the need to promote resilience, creativity, and equity in learning systems. It concludes by providing a list of recommendations that policymakers, administrators and leaders should embrace to develop an institution of tomorrow, which is innovative, equalized the global trends and the local contexts.