Forgetting and Seeing | Jason Raley Ph.D. | TEDxUCSB

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Dr. Raley talks about his traumatic brain injury and what he went through to return to everyday life. He relates this experience to his goals in education reform, where he hopes to see an environment that fosters more thought and reflection than our current fast paced, black and white school system.

Dr. Jason Raley is at the Gevirtz School of Education at the University of California, 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 avocados and citrus fruits (and three young children) in the Santa Clara River Valley in Ventura County, California.

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