59-05-032 Proceeding

15 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress The concept of the National Defence College of Thailand’s Research Development: Interdisciplinary research and response to the solutions for solving major problems of the nation 1. The interdisciplinary research is a holistic education which is an appropriate education for the higher education aiming for the exchange of information and knowledge between learners. Furthermore, it greatly helps balance the learning process of students and provides them with excellent opportunities for exchanging learning experiences with each other. Therefore, the aforesaid benefits of the interdisciplinary research of NDC will significantly strengthen NDC to be the world-class educational institutions. 2. It emphasizes the importance of research in the course of the NDC which seeks for the truth and reasoning in order to propose effective ways to solve various important issues or, in other words, to make NDC students to become quality researchers. 3. Aiming at changing thewayNDC students think and solve problems as well as improving self-development and enhancing the effectiveness of the collaborationwith other people from various organizations, communities and the country so as to preserve long-term benefits of everyone. 4. Encouraging students to take the perspective of various disciplines widely as well as the interdisciplinary perspective to solve the economic, social and political issues in every aspect holistically. 5. Emphasizing thedevelopment that is needed to consider other relatedelements practically in order to solve important problems of the country effectively. Clearly, this concept suits the current era of the development of our nation that our nation’s educational development has started from the education reform and economic development has been improving by the promotion of science and technology. In conclusion, the research projects of NDC students of the National Defence College of Thailand need to have a relationship between elements of context in order to deal with problems and complicated matters which include seven main principles. 1. Principle for a holistic approach (Holism)means a holistic viewwhich the overall picture is much more than just a combination of elements. 2. Principle of Relationshipmeans that each time a person looks into the problem, a person needs to approach it using a holistic view. Thus, this action will lead a person to see other elements which are related to the problem at the same time. 3. Principle of Diversity refers to the diversity and differences. For instance, if anyone says that I will think by using systematic thinking and individual thinking, these are not effective thinking processes because quality thinking process requires thoughts of a diverse group of people.