Education
Hart received a Bachelor of Arts in geography from the University of Hull in England in 1968 and undertook a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in geography at in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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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 United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, 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”.
