Liderazgo Transformacional y Gestión Estratégica: Pilares para la Calidad Educativa en la Era Digital: Transformational Leadership and Strategic Management: Pillars of Educational Quality in the Digital Age

Santiago Felipe Donoso Vargas

doi:10.29394/Scientific.issn.2542-2987.2026.11.39.0.10-13

Authors

Santiago Felipe Donoso Vargas National University of Education (UNAE) https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5276-6014

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29394/Scientific.issn.2542-2987.2026.11.39.0.10-13

Keywords:

transformational leadership, strategic management, educational quality, digital age

Abstract

The intersection of transformational leadership and strategic management increasingly defines the real possibilities of achieving educational quality in institutions operating within volatile digital environments. This editorial rests on a simple yet frequently overlooked premise: technology does not transform on its own. What transforms is the managerial capacity to align resources, people, and purposes around concrete pedagogical objectives. From this conviction, we examine how flexible governance models and the redefinition of leadership competencies shape the construction of learning environments that not only incorporate digital tools, but invest them with meaning. The text aims to open a necessary debate within the academic community about the role of the educational leader as an agent of genuine transformation, not merely nominal, in today's context.

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Author Biography

Santiago Felipe Donoso Vargas, National University of Education (UNAE)

Bachelor's degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), Kyiv, Ukraine; Advanced Diploma in Social Sciences: Constructivism and Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Argentina; Master's degree in Geopolitics from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), Kyiv, Ukraine; Master's degree in Educational Sciences and Pedagogy from the M. P. Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine; Doctor (PhD.) in Political Sciences from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), Kyiv, Ukraine; Postdoctorate in Vocational Education and Administration of Educational Institutions from the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP), Kyiv, Ukraine; University professor with 14 years of experience at the Interregional Academy of Personnel Management (MAUP) and the Kyiv Linguistic University, Ukraine; the Central University of Ecuador (UCE) and the National University of Education (UNAE), Ecuador; researcher with publications indexed in Scopus, director of master's and doctoral theses, academic consultant, director of a research project on public policies and inclusion, member of the Directorate of Quality and Institutional Evaluation of UNAE.

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Transformational Leadership and Strategic Management: Pillars of Educational Quality in the Digital Age