George Scarlett

George Scarlett is a senior lecturer in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development. In the past, his teaching and publications have focused on children’s play, approaches to children’s challenging behaviors, and religious and spiritual development across the life-span. More recently, his focus has been on teaching and writing about the development of ‘Earth stewards’. As a Tisch Faculty Fellow, he will be continuing development of a new web magazine, Tomorrow’s Earth Stewards, which provides support for all those involved in connecting children and teens to the natural world and nourishing their development as earth stewards. He will also be continuing research on the development of ‘ocean stewards’ at the New England Aquarium, a project focusing on graduates of the NEAq’s youth programs.