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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
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
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 …
An historical analysis of young people’s use of public space, parks and playgrounds in New York City
In this paper I present childhood biographies of three people who grew up in or near a public housing development located on the border between …
Block politics
This paper explores how young people have experienced everyday life on ‘the block’ in a racially diverse lower to working class community in New York …
Everyone Counts: Dalit Children and Education
This report describes some Save the Children US programs in Siraha, Nepal, and their effectiveness in improving educational opportunities and success for children in excluded …
An alternative model for responding to children in poverty: the work of the Alliance in Mumbai and other cities
This paper describes the work of the NGO SPARC and its grass roots partners in Mumbai (together known as the Alliance), with particular reference to …
Good governance – Making age a part of the equation
There has been a fair amount of confusion about the focus of this issue of CYE—both about the concept of “governance” (“Why don’t you just …
The Rights of Children and Youth to Participate
In 1989 the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), a set of universal standards for the protection and development …
