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June 19, 2012
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Jason Raley from UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz School presents keynote talk at TEDxUCSB

Jason Raley from UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School presented the closing talk at the TEDxUCSB conference held on April 27, 2012. His presentation was entitled “The Fine Print of ‘Passion’ (and what it really means for our complaints about schools)” and is currently available to be watched online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rp9_hOe_w

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 26 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. At TED, the world's leading thinkers and doers are asked to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event.

Jason Duque Raley is at the Gevirtz School of Education at UC Santa Barbara. His current research explores the substance, conduct, and consequence of social relations in educational encounters, with a special focus on matters of trust and authority. His work is oriented by a hope that schools can be made to recover a democratic function. When not writing, teaching, or making video analyses, Raley grows avocadoes and citrus fruits (and three young children) in the Santa Clara River Valley in Ventura County, California.

[Jason Raley is available for interviews; contact George Yatchisin at 805 893 5789]

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