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Compassionate Pioneering

Steven W. Gilbert

November 27, 2001

 

“Compassionate Pioneers” try to do better and help others.

 

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.  Everyone can be a compassionate pioneer – at least occasionally.  Everyone can occasionally take actions that others would recognize as examples of “compassionate pioneering.”

 

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. 

 

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.]

 

For more information about the origins of this notion and some ideas about extending it,  see: <http://www.tltgroup.org/gilbert/FireCircles&NurturingCommunity.htm>.]