Anyway, coming back from my sharing after having attended a one-day session when researchers from Bangkok went to Chiang Mai to present the progress of their projects (sub-projects).
This Project is one of the five mega-projects called, 'Spearhead' meaning that the Principal Coordinator (PC) has freedom to manage the block grant given with high tendency to have a 3-year grant system to ensure continuity.
The first sub-projects (basically younger researchers below 40 years old) range from Future Studies of the urban living and relations of home, temple, and school; to corruption, China's influence in our economy, and beliefs of the digital gen.....eventually and hopefully the subsequent research will lead to clearer shape of the desirable Khon Thai 4.0 ka.
The day started with a session from 'Thailand's future from philosophy and history dimensions'. This set stage for all to have some similar background on what's existed.
My learning ka:
- I like it this way, knowing how tough a big research project is with its processes that could be much longer than just one year. Another feature that drew me to be involved is the PC's freedom to design and manage. I favor freedom in designing and taking actions as it opens up our minds from traditional and far too structured formats we've seen which frequently could have blocked creativity and new approaches of working in our different world ka.
- The idealistic definition of 'Khon Thai 4.0 consists of intelligence, thinking and doing abilities, sufficiency, discipline, honesty, volunteerism, and responsibilities. It seems far too ideal to be true and at least this Research aims to create some ripple effects to our society to start with. This impact makes me feel more agreeable to the overall project ka.
- It was real sanuk to follow the thinking of 'Traditional generation' (gen older than Baby Boom). Their sharing about our Thai roots could help bridge our past with our present and future, knowing better who we are and what have shaped Thais to be Thais ka. I learned that we have most terms about 'lying' in the world (making me think of 'heart' which has over 700 in Thai ka!). History also confirms how deep the corruption has been in our roots including LGBT.
- Love the engagement of younger researchers with high capability and passion to do research of this scale.
- Enjoyed the questions and comments given to the researchers which could play a good part for further exploration, thinking, and analysis ka. Even though at this early stage, it was hard to see the expected results, some earlier requests/ queries could lead researchers to be more aware and see how to incorporate/integrate crucial issues to make their research more complete!
- Learning about the neo-digital citizens' behaviors and thinking could help us live more productively and harmoniously with our younger generations whose ways of life have moved far from us and cross-generation understanding is beneficial to us all......older generations need more adjustments to get to the younger ones' hearts, I think.
Happy Sunday ka.
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