Parental ideologies in the home safety management of one to four-year-old children
The primary aim of this research is to construct and test a comprehensive model of parental child rearing and safety ideologies and to investigate the …
Childhoods in Place and Placeless Childhoods: An Historical Geography of Young People In Yorkville and East Harlem 1940-2000
This dissertation provides an analysis of how young people’s everyday lives outside of school in Yorkville and East Harlem have changed from the 1940s until present …
Children’s Participation: From Tokenism to Citizenship
A nation is democratic to the extent that its citizens are involved, particularly at the community level. The confi- dence and competence to be involved …
Action Research: The Critical Role of Children’s Environmental Education in Community-based Sustainable Development
The question of how children become concerned about the environment is a very important one for anyone who believes that a concerned and informed citizen …
Learning Through Gardening
This publication includes two brief essay, one by Roger Hart, and the other by Louise Chawla. In each the authors address the role of gardening …
The Roots of Environmental Concern
This paper is a fist stage in the construction of a model of the development of children’s concern for the physical environment. To explore this …
Children as the Makers of a New Geography
We cannot rely upon the traditional approach of social science which observes children’s live and reports it to policy makes in the hope that they …
Affection for Nature and the Promotion of Stewardship in Childhood
The environmental education of children is being promoted as essential to the establishment of a citizenry which is more caring toward the environment. But education …
Child and Youth Development Through Community Participation: A Review of Psychological Literature on the Benefits of Community Participation and Children’s Developing Capacities to Participate
Very instructive for this Initiative was the review of the psychological literature on Children’s developing capacities to participate, and on the benefits of participation. This …
