2003 Archives - children's environments research group

The Neighborhood Atlas Project: An example of participatory action research in geography education

In this paper I present a model for participatory action research (PAR) in geography education with middle school teachers and students to learn about children’s …

Roger Hart on Colin Ward and Tony Fyson, in First Steps: A Primer on the Geographies of Children’s Youth

Bijan Kimiagar

After completing a PhD on the geography of children in the mid 1970’s I was looking for a useful way to continue this work. A quietly radical …

Containing children: some lessons on planning for play from New York City

Bijan Kimiagar

This paper relates the history of playground provision in New York to changing conceptions of childhood, and specifically to a felt need to ’contain’ children …