Roger Hart

Roger A. Hart (born c. 1950) is a Professor in the Environmental Psychology Ph.D. Program of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is also the Co-Director of the [http://www.cerg1.org Children’s Environments Research Group] .

Biography

Hart received a B.A. in Geography from University of Hull in England and a Ph.D. from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1976. His 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 greater participation of disadvantaged children in articulating their concerns and perspectives as a way of fulfilling their rights. To this end, he has collaborated in numerous countries with international non-government agencies. With UNICEF he has written two 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

*"Undesigning For Children: Creating Space for Free Play and Informal Learning in Community Gardens" (with Selim Iltus and Peter Beeton). New York: Design Trust For Public Spaces, in press.
*"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.
*"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).
*"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).

External links

* [http://www.licweb.com/hpcc/v4n1/roger.html Interview with Roger Hart]
* [http://web.gc.cuny.edu/che/cerg/ Children's Environments Research Group]