Roger A. Hart (born c. 1950) is a child-rights academic, and former Professor of Psychology and Geography at the
City University of New York
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and co-director of the Children's Environments Research Group.
[Cergnyc.org "Children’s Environments Research Group"] City University of New York. Retrieved 8/9/11]
Education
Hart received a B.A. in
geography
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from the
University of Hull
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in
England
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in 1968 and undertook a Masters and PhD in geography at
Clark University
Clark University is a private research university in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1887 with a large endowment from its namesake Jonas Gilman Clark, a prominent businessman, Clark was one of the first modern research uni ...
in
Worcester,
Massachusetts
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.
Teaching
Hart was editor of Childhood City Quarterly for ten years and is on the advisory boards of Child magazine, the Child Development Institute at
Sarah Lawrence College
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, and the Children’s Garden Programs of the American Horticultural Society. He has also taught at
UCLA
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and the
Université de Montréal
The Université de Montréal (; UdeM; ) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university's main campus is located in the Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce on M ...
. Roger Hart is the former director of the Center for Human Environments and the Children’s Environments Research Group at the
Graduate Center
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.
Research
Hart's research has focused on understanding the everyday lives of children and youth and, to this end, he has designed many participatory methodologies for working with young people. He has collaborated with others in the application of theory and research to the planning and design of children's environments and to
environmental education.
In recent years, his work has been more broadly concerned with finding ways to foster the participation of disadvantaged children in fulfilling their rights. To this end, he has collaborated in numerous countries with international non-governmental agencies. With
UNICEF
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, he has written 2 books on children's participation and co-authored “Cities for Children: Children’s Rights, Poverty and Urban Management”. With the Save the Children Alliance, he has written “The Children’s Clubs of Nepal: A Democratic Experiment” and the video “Mirrors of Ourselves: Tools of Democratic Self Reflection for Groups of Children and Youth”.
Bibliography
*''Children’s Participation: The Theory And Practice Of Involving Young Citizens In Community Development and Environmental Care.'' New York: UNICEF, and London: Earthscan, 1997 (Also available in Chinese, Japanese and Spanish).
*''Cities for Children: Children’s Rights, Poverty and Urban Management'' (with Bartlett, S., de la Barra, X., Missair, A., and Satterthwaite, D.). New York: UNICEF, and London: Earthscan, Summer, 1999.
*''Environments for Children: Understanding and Acting on the Environmental Hazards That Threaten Infants, Children and Their Parents''. (with Satterthwaite, D., Levy C., Ross D., and Stevens, C.). New York: UNICEF, and London: Earthscan, 1997.
*''Children's Participation: from Tokenism to Citizenship.'' for UNICEF Innocenti Essays, No. 4, UNICEF/International Child Development Centre, Florence, Italy, 1992. Published by the Latin American office of UNICEF as La Participacion de los Niños: de la participacion simbolica a la Participacion Autentica. (Also published by NGOs in French, Turkish, Japanese and Thai).
*''Getting in Touch with Play: Creating Play Environments for Children with Visual Impairments.'' (with
Kim Blakely and
Maryanne Lang). New York: Lighthouse National Center for Vision and Child Development, 1991.
*''Land and Life: A World Geography.'' (with
Harm de Blij and
Gerald Danzer). Chicago, IL: Scott-Foresman Publishing Company, 1988.
*''Children's Experience of Place: A Developmental Study.'' New York.: Irvington Publishers (distributed by Halstead/Wiley Press), 1978. (reviews in Science, Geographical Review, and Contemporary Psychology).
See also
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Youth participation
Youth participation is the active engagement of young people throughout their own communities. It is often used as a shorthand for youth participation in any many forms, including decision-making, sports, schools and any activity where young peo ...
*
Children's rights
Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors.
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UNICEF
UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing Humanitarianism, humanitarian and Development a ...
References
External links
Interview with Roger HartChildren's Environments Research Group
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21st-century American psychologists
Environmental psychologists
Clark University alumni
UNICEF people
Living people
1950 births