OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Education is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Learning with lands and waters: Visiting as an indigenous feminist practice in climate education	79
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	46
Thinking with racialized educators’ embodied experiences of climate coloniality: Implications for education	40
Greening higher education in Europe: institutional transitions to sustainable development	22
The effectiveness and implementation of a humane education program in China: Promoting socio-emotional and ecological competencies among elementary school students	22
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	22
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	20
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	18
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	16
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	15
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	15
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	15
Religion, narrative, and the environmental humanities: bridging the rhetoric gap	15
Disrupted sustainability? - Students’ environmental practices from home to campus	14
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	13
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	12
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	11
“Time is different working with the land”: Temporal pedagogies in European ecovillages	11
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	11
Youth understandings of economic growth and ecological sustainability	11
Housing in the Capitalocene : Environmental education and sustainable living	10
What can the Romans do for us? The role of classics in delivering learning for sustainability	10
Children’s connection to nature: A comparison between forest school and conventional school students	9
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene	9
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	9

Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	9
At the intersection of environmental learning and special education: Hidden opportunities	9
Stockholm +50, Tbilisi +45, Rio +30: Research, praxis, and policy	9
WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy	9
Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development	9
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	9
The role of emotional messaging in climate education: Hope vs. fear appeals and student efficacy	9
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	8
Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	8
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	8
Beyond competencies: Sustainable schemas as cognitive architectures in education for sustainability	8
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	7
Growing agency in food systems education: Navigating tensions in experiential learning in agriculture	7
The role of environmental ideologies in environmental education	7
Systemic impacts of sustainability education: A case study of New York Sun Works	6
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	6
Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students	6
Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature	6
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	6
Perspectives and practices of education for sustainable development: a critical guide for higher education	6
The dirtiness of clean: Unearthing settler logics that sustain spatial woundings in the Capitalocene	6
Long-term influences of participation in an earth education program in middle school	6
Tbilisi’s “Sounds Of Silence”—(In)action in the policy ≠ embodiments of environmental education	6
Value-premises in environmental and sustainability education research	6
Designing sustainable schemes: Integrating Vergnaud and Morin in education for sustainability	5
“Are these girl ladybugs or boy ladybugs?”: An exploratory study on gender in nature-based education	5
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	5
Insect collecting with K-12 aged students: Balancing educational value and ethical considerations	5
Beyond exposure: How parental discussions and student grade levels moderate the relationship between children’s nature interaction and pro-environmental behaviors	5
Teaching under an orange sky: Toward reimagining educational purpose on a damaged planet	5
Eco-rational education: An educational response to environmental crisis	5
Envisioning educational pathways for climate change competencies: Insights from a Delphi study	4
A global-scale examination of associations between education and climate vulnerability and adaptability	4
Environmental Citizenship: Dutch students’ sustainability competences and avenues for science education	4
Action-oriented approaches to teaching environmental science in Bhutanese secondary schools: Stakeholder perceptions	4
Education and the marine environmental issue: A historical review of research fields and the popularization on conservation and management of the sea and ocean in Brazil	4
Assessment of sustainability competencies in primary education: A systematic review	3
Exploring environmental stewardship among youth from a high-biodiverse region in Colombia	3
A cross-national validation of a Climate Change competence scale for secondary school students in Spain and Honduras	3
The importance of (not just visual) interaction with nature: A study with the Girl Scouts	3
Local and scientific knowledges in a place-based sustainability education program: Effects on undergraduates’ connection to a rural area in Hong Kong	3
A systematic literature review on the impact of XR on pro-environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors	3
A cross-institutional survey of undergraduate students knowledge about climate change	3
Encountering Friends of Coal: Relationships and environmental education	3
Green minds across borders: A cross-cultural study of how green education shapes university students’ behavior in China and Ecuador	3
Toddlers and sustainability: How policy frameworks and teacher practices intersect in Sweden and Türkiye	3
Bridging worlds: A critical realist approach to integrating Indigenous and scientific knowledge for sustainable education	3
Family matters: intergenerational influences on children’s agricultural literacy	3
A manifesto: Co-constructing contemporary climate change education	2
“The name of things”: Lexical ecological literacy as Bildung in environmental and sustainability education	2

Tuscarora nation lands and the New York State Power authority: an environmental justice education approach to decolonizing curriculum	2
Prospects for embedding environment-related literacies in Indonesian high schools	2
The Deep Time Walk as a transformative learning practice: Including the inner and ecological dimensions in learning as sustainability	2
The gardens as commons, the commons as classroom: Abolitionist civic learning in practice	2
Teaching climate change: Understanding K-12 educators’ personal perspectives on climate change through latent profile analysis	2
Teacher continuous professional development in climate change education: Analyzing teachers’ perspectives	2
Prompts for eco-social transformation: What environmental education can learn from transformative design	2
The Well Living in Territory of Mato Grosso do Sul: The historical (re)existence of Pantanal and Cerratenses populations	2
Fossil fuel interests, climate obstructionism, and higher education policy: A critique of the Australian Universities Accord	2
Integrating circular economy education into education for sustainable development: A conceptual advancement and typology of integration strategies	2
Exploring youth eco-literacy through lived experiences. ‘When you purchase a pair of jeans, you bear the burden of child labor in South Asia’	2
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	2