Dr. Hart highlights his research on how children’s play and out-of-school lives have changed on Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s RN Drive’s Series “It’s All Academic: kid’s geography” .
Category: Ecological Study of Children’s Lives
Dr. Hart’s research featured on Invisibilia Podcast, National Public Radio, USA
Click here to download [PDF] Title: Sow What You Know Author(s): Cindi Katz Publication year: 1991 Publisher: Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Whether geographical behavior begins with a baby’s first exploration of its own body, its spatial experiments in coping for its mover’s attending, or when it first crawls away from the “nest”, it must surely be agree that human geography beings in children. Why then has so little been written b our profession on the geography […]
The purpose of the dissertation is to advance a critical understanding of how a neighborhood environment can have changed since 1890 and to identify the consequents these changes have brought to children. Current problems in children’s access to their communities thus are discussed in light of their origins and historical precedents; the problem of today […]
The primary aim of this research is to construct and test a comprehensive model of parental child rearing and safety ideologies and to investigate the relationship of these ideologies to the Safety Management Systems (SMS) of families. The concept of SMS is used to describe the entire set of factors existing at any one time […]
This dissertation provides an analysis of how young people’s everyday lives outside of school in Yorkville and East Harlem have changed from the 1940s until present time, and what factors contribute to consistencies or differences in young people’s use and experience of their local environment. This research seeks to contribute to the limited academic literature on […]
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 City over time, a concept that I refer to as block politics. Broadly defined, block politics refers to the process in which young people’s territories are socially conceived, performed, maintained […]
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 narrow view of children’s social participation for citizenship. Instead, a new vision of children’s social participation in the settings of their daily lives, from peer and family interactions and decision-making […]
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 motivations for engagement with the physical world, and their moral development. Political socialization, which hear upon their likelihood of taking action, is also reviewed. Connections between development in these fields […]
