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Compassionate
Pioneering
& Compassionate Pioneers
“Compassionate Pioneers” try to do better and help others.
Recognize, encourage, and support Compassionate Pioneers.
Recognize, encourage, and support
occasional acts of Compassionate Pioneering
by those who cannot be
Compassionate Pioneers all the time! [Most of us.]
Interview Questions
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Compassionate Pioneering Compassionate Pioneers
are those who not only reach beyond their own limits and lead the way in
developing or trying new options, but who also encourage and help their
colleagues to take the same path. Perhaps only a few of us can be
“Compassionate Pioneers,” but most of us can engage occasionally in acts
of “Compassionate Pioneering” – and we should do so as often as we can.
Those who frequently
give their ideas and their work to an environment of sharing and who build
upon each other’s contributions are compassionate pioneers.
Every contribution of an
idea or effort to an environment of sharing and building upon each other’s
contributions is an act of compassionate pioneering.
We can all be
Compassionate Pioneers more often.
- Steven W. Gilbert
November 27, 2001
For more information
about the origins of this notion and some ideas about extending it, see:
Fire Circles & Nurturing Communities
"Tempered Radicals"
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Next Steps
Find, develop ways to encourage, support, sustain acts of Compassionate
Pioneering and Compassionate Pioneers!
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Record Your Own Answers
to Our Compassionate Pioneering Interview Questions
1. Who are one or two
people you can easily identify as
obvious "Compassionate Pioneers"?
2. Who are one or two less
obvious ("unsung
heroes") who occasionally act like Compassionate
Pioneers?
3.
What are one or two exemplary activities of
"Compassionate Pioneering" done by
unsung heroes?
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Resources
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Small Steps:
actions or initiatives that require few resources or little energy,
and can be done quickly by a few people
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Gandhi's "Seven Blunders of the World" That Lead to Violence ...Plus
5
- Steve Gilbert's audio-narrated
slideshow offering an introduction to
"Community, Connectedness, and Info. Tech. in Higher Education"
(approx. 8 minutes)
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Seven Fundamental Questions
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Fundamental Questions home page
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Why Bother? Why bother to use new
technology, to support change, to build community? Why bother to
keep trying to improve teaching and learning... with technology?
Includes both practical and visionary answers.
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Education, Technology, and the Human Spirit
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Learning Cures Sadness -- Excerpt from T. H. White's Once &
Future King
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"You Are Not Alone!"
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Babies Page
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Holding Babies.— and other Near Life Experiences
Excerpts from AAHESGIT Posting by Steven W. Gilbert, June 18, 1996
Full text of AAHESGIT Posting #127 10/29/01
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Postcards, Instant Messaging, & Other
Forms of Maintaining Connections
[Steve Gilbert's Posting to AAHESGIT of 11/00]
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Thanksgiving Web page
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More on Nurturing Communities ...
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More on Connectedness...
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Stories
We want to collect and publish stories about
Compassionate Pioneering and Compassionate Pioneers – especially in educational
uses of information technology.
Stories of Compassionate
Pioneering should not be written or submitted by the pioneer him/herself,
because these stories should be written or told with feelings of gratitude for
the action performed -- or explicitly to thank the Compassionate Pioneer.
These stories need only be
about specific acts of compassionate pioneering. These acts need not be
heroic in scale and need not have been performed by someone who is widely
recognized as a Compassionate Pioneer.
However, stories are also
welcome about individuals who have demonstrated that they are truly
“Compassionate Pioneers” through many innovative contributions and
continuing, sustained efforts to help others.
[Of course, we’re also
looking for stories that clearly explain how a Compassionate Pioneer made an
innovative improvement in teaching and learning that makes use of information
technology AND how that same person helped a colleague to make a similar
effort.]
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