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 …
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 …
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 …
SUMMARY NEEDED Click here to download [PDF] Title: Interpreting the Participation Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Author(s): Roger Hart Publication Date: 1996 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
In this chapter Hart argues that the emphasis on children’s decision making with adults and consultation with adults in formal settings is a much too …
This essay reaches into the complex issues of urban growth to ask how we can insert a better understanding of children’s needs and perspectives into …
In this introduction to the special issue on children’s participation, Cahill and Hart address issues raised by the collected papers and identify new questions for …
In a first step to construct a model of the development of an environmental concern, literature is reviewed regarding children’s understanding of environmental processes, their …