AREAS OF FOCUS
 
Urban Policy and Planning
 
Children's Rights
 
Children's Citizenship and Democratic Participation
 
Environmental Learning and Education
 
Innovative Design for Children
 
Play Policy, Planning and Design
 

ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING AND EDUCATION

CERG conducts fundamental research on children's environmental learning and also assists in the design of innovative programs of environmental education with community-based organizations, public schools, children's museums, children's gardening programs and children's zoos.

Examples of our past work include collaboration in the design of a dramatic public radio series on environmental education for public schools,   participation in the design and evaluation of a joint gardening program with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the writing of Children’s Participation: The Theory and practice of Involving Children in Community Development and Environmental Care. CERG also created a series of teaching units on "Children as Community Researchers" for UNICEF.

Currently we are collaborating with The Public Science Project in the development of participatory approach to food justice in a community youth program.