Finland vs The Slums; Who will we look to for inspiration in the field of education?

Here is another TED.com video that you have to see on how 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.

http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_education.html

You can also catch it on my Vod Pod on the right hand column.

If you want to read more about the subject matter he covers you can find a copy of the report he bases his presentation on, on his website at

http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx

I'm currently reading through it at the moment and gleaning for all the possible schools I want to visit on W.T.S.R.E. (World Tour of Sites of Radical Education).

I'll do another blog on that when I'm done.

Talk to ya later mates.