A Study on the Development of Yi Sun-sin’s Leadership to Enhance Student Creativity in the AI Era

This study aimed to analyze the core elements of Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s leadership to foster student creativity in the AI era, and to design and implement an educational program based on these elements. The results revealed that Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s strategic thinking, decisiveness, communication, and collaboration skills go beyond mere historical facts and offer significant implications for fostering students’ creative problem-solving and leadership skills in modern education. Furthermore, simulation and case-based learning programs integrated with AI technology were found to be effective educational models that foster students’ spirit of challenge and innovative thinking through hands-on experience. Theoretically, this study proposed a creativity development educational model that integrates historical leadership principles with cutting-edge AI technology, contributing to the exploration of a new educational paradigm that integrates tradition and modernity. Practically, it suggests that educational programs based on Admiral Yi Sun-sin’s leadership can enhance students’ problem-solving, collaboration, and communication skills, ultimately contributing to the development of future leaders. Future research should expand the pilot program to a wider range of schools and age groups, and develop a systematic research design to evaluate its long-term educational impact. Furthermore, a more sophisticated integrated educational model utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, including AI technology, history education, and leadership development, should be developed. Furthermore, diverse collaboration tools and real-time feedback systems should be introduced to maximize educational effectiveness. In particular, we suggest the development of evaluation tools and indicators that can more accurately measure the effectiveness of fostering creativity and leadership, enabling research that objectively verifies the effectiveness of educational programs.