ETHICAL LEADERSHIP IN UTILIZING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT: CHALLENGES AND THE WAY FORWARD

The study was on ethical leadership utilizing artificial intelligence for educational management: challenges and the way forward, in public senior secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council, FCT, Abuja, Nigeria. Two research questions were raised for the study. Survey research design was applied by the researchers to sample the representatives from the population. The population was 641 teachers in public senior secondary schools in Gwagwalada Area Council FCT, Abuja, Nigeria (from Secondary Education Board, 2015). The sample of the study was 400 teachers (to assess the principals) sampled through random sampling technique. The instrument for the study was validated by experts in the Department of Educational Management, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria. The reliability of the instrument was carried out by conducting a pilot study, test-retest method was used to collate data for analysis. The reliability coefficient index of 0.78 was obtained using Combrach alpha statistics. Mean statistics was used to analyse the research questions. The findings of the study proved that: the principals did not use ethical principles such as: transparency, accountability, inclusivity etcetera when adopting AI to manage secondary education; principals faced many problems with the use of AI and that they did not adopt any leadership strategies to enhance ethical use of AI for educational management in public senior secondary schools in Gwagwalada FCT, Abuja. Based on the findings of the study the researchers recommended that principals should as a matter of necessity adopt ethical principles when utilizing AI for educational management in public senior secondary schools in Gwagwalada, FCT, Abuja.