Landscapes are, in part, expressions of culture and they serve a support for the continuance of particular cultures or subcultures. When one looks closely at variations in landscapes and their different impacts upon chil- dren it becomes clear that they serve as important tools in the socialization of children, though neither parents or planners are […]
Category: Roger Hart
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 […]
City children have always wanted to play in the streets. They have wanted to be where the action is. The earliest playground were never intended to provide a rich play environment for children; adults wanted children off the streets, especially those children who were considered delinquent. They did not stay off the streets. All over […]
In the first step to construct a model of the development of environmental concern, theories of children’s understanding of environmental processes are moral development are reviewed. Connections between development in these fields and development of environmental concern are suggest. It is proposed that there are three motivations for environmental concern, which involve separate but overlapping paths […]
Health care facility planners and designers, like professionals in any other fields have not often recognized the valuable contributions children can make to their work. There are, however, some special reasons that make child participation in health facility design particularly important. First, child health care facilities are, even more than any other environment, adult-controlled. The […]
A nation is democratic to the extent that its citizens are involved, particularly at the community level. The confi- dence and competence to be involved must be gradually acquired through practice. It is for this reason that there should be gradually increasing opportunities for children to participate in any aspiring democracy, and particularly in those […]
The question of how children become concerned about the environment is a very important one for anyone who believes that a concerned and informed citizen is central to the healthy stewardship of the earth. Child must has been written on environmental education practices, we know very little about how and why children develop a concern […]
This publication includes two brief essay, one by Roger Hart, and the other by Louise Chawla. In each the authors address the role of gardening in the development of children’s understanding of their environment, and their desire to care for it. Click here to download [PDF] Title: Learning Through Gardening Author(s): Roger Hart, Louise Chawla Publication Date: 1994 Publisher: American […]
This paper is a fist stage in the construction of a model of the development of children’s concern for the physical environment. To explore this process of development, it will consider sources of environmental knowledge and emotional investment, and some model of the origins of environmental knowledge, emotion and action will be applied to suggest […]
We cannot rely upon the traditional approach of social science which observes children’s live and reports it to policy makes in the hope that they will improve children’s conditions. We need now more radial social science research with children in which children themselves learn to reflect upon their own conditions, so that they can gradually […]
