The question was "Are ideas contagious and who are the hubs and what is their purpose?" Well ideas are certainly contagious, but ideas could be either good or bad and it doesn't matter how good your ideas are they could be destroyed by people who have a strong network. I recently took a class in community development and the text recommended that you plant as many seeds (ideas) as you can to spread the community development process. Our community has been an inter agency community for about twenty years and we have many success stories but our ideas are often not successful because there are not enough people in our network to have it succeed. You need to create motivation in your idea before you can succeed.
In my classroom, I have been introducing and teaching students about Aboriginal people and I have tried to focus on equality considering we are First Nations and Metis people. My idea of equality went home one day when a grade two student went hame and told his parents, papa you are First Nations and mama you ar Metis but we all share the same community and we are all equally important. It is difficult for a community to continue having division if students are promoting the idea of equality. Our hubs are our students and if we want to create a better future we need to start with our students as our notwork.
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Hi Rosalena. I live in a small town and have seen the same process you talk about many times. In order for something new to be adopted by the community there needs to be a critical mass of support or the initiative just dies out.A good book about 'creating motivation' is Recreating the World:A Practical Guide to Building Sustainable Communities, by Michael and Judie Bopp.
ReplyDeleteWhere did the question, "Are ideas contagious?" come from?
Are ideas contagious comes from Clarence Fishers post. I read the text that you are referring to and I have suggested that all of the members of the inter agency read this text because there is so much common sense and every leader needs to be on similiar paths if we want our small communities to be healthy communities.
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