A disproportionate number of impoverished families live in housing which does not allow easy access to safe outdoor play. This paper uses Bowlby’s theory of attachment as a framework for considering the implications of a lack of outdoor access for parental strategies and for the interaction of parents and children. The situation of one family […]
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This study examined the influence of gender and social relationships on the everyday geographic experiences of adolescents in Eugene, Oregon. Forty-six 13-year-old students kept detailed diaries of all their travels for a period of one week. Females traveled to a greater number of places, and in particular to commercial and residential locations. Male students traveled […]
This paper describes how children’s needs are routinely ignored or misunderstood by urban development policy, plans and practice – and the very high costs this brings for them in terms of ill-health, injury, premature death and impaired physical, mental and social development. For instance, provision for water, sanitation and housing often fails to address the […]
The nature of gender differences in geographic performance is widely debated. It is suggested that one of the reasons for this disparity in learning is male propensity for exploration of the environment through personal travel. This study is an analysis of gender and cross-cultural personal travel as an indicator of performance on a standardised geography […]
Child-rearing studies systematic descriptions and analyses of how a culture raises its children are few and far between. Those which look at indigenous child-rearing with a sympathetic eye are even more unusual. And those that do all of this within a framework of child rights are virtually unknown. This book on child-rearing practices […]
This handbook builds on the experience of a research project in Nepal – a qualitative investigation into child rearing practices and beliefs in four rural communities which took place in 1999 and which has been documented in a report entitled Bringing up Children in a Changing World. This study was undertaken as part of an […]
This article argues that if children were the focus of more deliberate attention on the part of donors, it could result in more effective use of the resources available for poverty reduction. Instead, development assistance neglects some of children’s most pressing needs, and fails to take advantage of the long-term benefits to be gained by ensuring their physical […]
There is an intimate link between the physical world children occupy and the quality of their lives. Their housing, the water they drink, the air they breathe, the traffic on their streets, and the quality of their schools and neighbourhoods all have impacts on their health, happiness and long term development. In many ways, and […]
Roger Hart is completing a longitudinal study on the changing nature of children’s out-of-school lives in a New England town. The study involves a revisiting of the town that he studied for his PhD dissertation in geography in the1970s. The results of the research will be published in a book and a film for television […]
Dr. Hart’s research featured on: It’s All Academic: Kid’s Geography, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Invisibilia Podcast, National Public Radio-USA All Things Considered, National Public Radio-USA The Current, CBC/Radio-Canada The Secret Life of Daytime, This American Life
