Education innovation in the slums

Name: Education innovation in the slums
Uploaded: 2010-06-23T08:48:00Z
Duration: 18 min 41 s
Description: Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.

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Charles Leadbeater |

TEDSalon London 2010

• April 2010

Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.