Book : Innovation in Education : Charles Leadbeater

A slight departure for this blog as I don’t think I’ve featured a book before. I attended the launch of this book at the Learning Without Frontiers conference last month and recieved a review copy.

Innovation in Education: Lessons from Pioneers Around the World is a celebration of pioneering, sustainable and scalable innovation initiatives from the world of education written by Charles Leadbeater.

The book explores the work of 16 pioneering educators around the world, highlighting innovations which increase access to education for groups outside the mainstream. It considers the skills that make these projects possible, such as intercultural understanding, creative thinking and team working. By tracing the story of these innovations, this book aims to raise awareness of why innovation in education is needed, where it comes from and how it can be generated. It looks at some of the common features of innovation, how innovation happens, what it is focused on and when and how to scale up. Many of the educators featured are applicants for awards from the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE).

The book includes case studies and portraits of lives that have been changed by embracing new approaches to education, including fathers’ groups in Istanbul, the favelas of Bogotá, rural villages in India, inner city programmes in North America and farm schools in Paraguay.

It is extensively illustrated with some outstanding photographs from photographer Romain Staros Staropoli.

The book coveres some amazing projects and many inspirational stories of educators who are daring to be different, and making a difference to lives around the world. I found it an interesting and inspiring read.

For more information, visit Bloomsbury Publishing, or Amazon.

If you are interested, you can read the first chapter of the book via the WISE blog here.

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