| Corina VEDEANU1, Ion STEGĂROIU2
Abstract: In classroom environments, learning is not merely an individual cognitive process, but it emerges from complex interactions within dynamic social systems. This paper conceptualizes the classroom as a self-organizing system in which adaptive leadership plays a central role in shaping patterns of interaction, stability, and learning. Drawing inspiration from natural systems, the paper argues that order in the classroom emerges through guided regulation rather than imposed control. Adaptive leadership contributes to the reduction of entropy by structuring interactions, modeling appropriate responses, and creating conditions for collective habituation. Emotional, social, and metaphorical intelligence influences how students act, react, and interact to classroom experiences. The central concept introduced is classroom habituation, defined as a collective process through which repeated interactions gradually stabilize into shared patterns of behavior, emotion, and meaning. Habituation is thus understood as a key mechanism for transforming classroom variability into functional order. By integrating entropy, habituation, and adaptive leadership, the study proposes a conceptual framework that explains how distinct classroom climates and learning conditions emerge over time. To explore these relationships, the study employs a quantitative design based on parallel questionnaires distributed to teachers and students, in order to examine leadership practices, classroom entropy, habituation processes, and learning outcomes. Keywords: Adaptive Leadership; Classroom Habituation; Classroom Entropy; Emotional and Social Intelligence. Read full article 1Valahia University of Târgovişte, Aleea Sinaia Street, 130004, Târgovişte, Romania; ORCID No. 0009-0009-5228-714X; vedeanucorina@yahoo.com (corresponding author) 2 Valahia University of Târgovişte, Aleea Sinaia Street, 130004, Târgovişte, Romania; Academy of Romanian Scientists, Ilfov Street 3, 050094 Bucharest, Romania; ORCID No. 0009-0008-5946-2601; stegaroiuion@yahoo.com |
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Journal of Knowledge Dynamics,
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