{"id":78660,"date":"2014-05-21T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T14:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78660"},"modified":"2024-07-01T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T20:52:58","slug":"fulbright-recipients-2014-clara-maeder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/21\/fulbright-recipients-2014-clara-maeder\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 Fulbright recipients: Clara Maeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_78721\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Maeder_52-L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78721\" class=\"size-large wp-image-78721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Maeder_52-L-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Clara Maeder '14  is a 2014 recipient of a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Maeder_52-L-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Maeder_52-L-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2014\/05\/E_140516_Fulbright_Maeder_52-L.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78721\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clara Maeder &#8217;14 is a 2014 recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship. (Sarah Crosby\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A politics major, Clara Maeder &#8217;14 of Washington, D.C., received a Fulbright English Teaching Assistantship for Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>In Maine and abroad in Chile and Ghana, Maeder has taught English and ecology in a variety of circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>Based on her experiences teaching English to migrant farmworkers in Maine, she plans to use hands-on techniques for teaching in Mexico. She says, \u201cI&#8217;ll use English-language learning to assist students in finding answers to questions that puzzle them and to guide students in discovering questions they never considered.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li><em>See Maeder&#8217;s senior thesis, recently published in the<\/em> Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics <em>(please scroll to page 67):<\/em>\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/psajournalou\/docs\/spring_edition_2014_final_2bbbaa75d3d462?e=9367845\/8507479\">http:\/\/issuu.com\/psajournalou\/docs\/spring_edition_2014_final_2bbbaa75d3d462?e=9367845\/8507479<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Outside the classroom, she expects to be active in the local community through working outdoors, perhaps by organizing environmentally focused field trips or creating educational school or community gardens. &#8220;Of the most meaningful cross-cultural connections I have made while living abroad, teaching and volunteering, almost all have involved being outdoors and working together,&#8221; she says.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completing her Fulbright experience, Maeder will study education at the graduate level and pursue teaching, ideally in a bilingual secondary school, investigating what students can learn from exploring other languages and cultures. She hopes to move eventually into education administration and policymaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=78676\">Return main Fulbright story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clara Maeder &#8217;14 is one of Bates&#8217; 10 2014 Fulbright recipients.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11011,9946],"tags":[3709,259,10770,11055],"class_list":["post-78660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-exclude-from-loops","tag-fulbright-u-s-student-program","tag-mexico","tag-politics","tag-student-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78660"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80289,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78660\/revisions\/80289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}