8 November 2012, Barcelona, Spain CERG Co-Director Roger Hart gave the keynote at the Child Participation and the Construction of Citizenship conference. The event aimed to disseminate results of recent research and foster dialogue on children’s participation and education in a forum for both researchers and practitioners. CERG Research Associates, Bijan Kimiagar and Jennifer Tang, were also invited to give […]
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July 2012, The Hague, The Netherlands Selim Iltus, Research and Evaluation Officer of the Bernard van Leer Foundation published the article, “Recognising the importance of the living conditions children grow up in”. The articles in this edition of Early Childhood Matters (Living Conditions: The Influence on Young Children’s Health) consider why most people have yet to realise the strong link between […]
13 June 13 2012, New York City Pamela Wridt, Co-Director of CERG talks with Equity for Children about her views on children and public policy, specifically in the city policy planning and evaluation process (see the brief interview by clicking here). This interview was conducted after the symposium ‘Children in an Urban World‘ that took place on March […]
30 March 2012, New York City Pamela Wridt, Co-Director of CERG, and Carlos Vasquez, UNICEF Education Specialist, speak with UNICEF’s podcast moderator, Femi Oke, about education, urbanization and child friendly cities. Their talk examines the importance of listening to children’s voices in the planning and design of communities, schools and cities. Hear the featured podcast through UNICEF’s website […]
February 2012, New York City CERG researchers Roger Hart, Sheridan Bartlett and Pamela Wridt contributed to UNICEF’s flagship report – The State of the World’s Children Report 2012, entitled Children in an Urban World.