TEDxDirigo - Jeff Thaler - Immersion in the Unfamiliar: An Education October 22, 2011

Favorite:

Jeff Thaler created the "Resettling Refugees in Maine" winter study program at Williams College, enabling students to live in Portland with refugee families for the month of January. Students become more self-aware, motivated to learn, empathetic, and open to a world of ambiguity and uncertainty. Thaler also serves as visiting professor and assistant university counsel at the University of Maine.

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