OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Education is 1. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Redefining action competence: The case of sustainable development	66
Safe spaces or a pedagogy of discomfort? Senior high-school teachers’ meta-emotion philosophies and climate change education	31
Global politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other current issues of environmental justice	25
Two for one: achieving both pro-environmental behavior and subjective well-being by implementing environmental-hope-enhancing programs in schools	20
How combinations of recreational activities predict connection to nature among youth	19
COVID-19 and the desire of children to return to nature: Emotions in the face of environmental and intergenerational injustices	19
Resilience, collaboration, and agency: Galapagos teachers confronting the disruption of COVID-19	18
Building a conceptual framework for an ESD-effective school organization	14
Justice-centered education amid the COVID-19 pandemic	11
A comparative analysis of environment and sustainability in policy across subnational education systems	11
Relationality and resilience: Environmental education in a time of pandemic and climate crisis	11
The role of school partnerships in promoting education for sustainability and social capital	10
Supporting local school reform toward education for sustainable development: The need for creating and continuously negotiating a shared vision and building trust	9
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	8
“Looking garbage in the eyes”: From recycling to reducing consumerism- transformative environmental education at a waste treatment facility	8
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	8
Democracy and the (missing) politics in environmental education	7
Indigenous environmental media coverage in Canada and the United States: A comparative critical discourse analysis	7
Mindfulness as self-confirmation? An exploratory intervention study on potentials and limitations of mindfulness-based interventions in the context of environmental and sustainability education	7
Understanding and responding to challenges students face when engaging in carbon cycle pool-and-flux reasoning	6
Effects of eco-animations on nine and twelve year old children’s environmental conceptions: How WALL-E changed young spectators’ views of earth and environmental protection	6
Reflections on integrating the political into environmental education through problem-based learning and political ecology	6
Learning for life: ESD, ecopedagogy and the new spirit of capitalism	6
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	6
Exploring local environmental change through filmmaking: The Lentes en Cambio Climático program	6

Using value-belief-norm theory to explore visitor responses to education programs at animal-themed facilities	6
Ecopedagogical literacy of a pandemic: Teaching to critically read the politics of COVID-19 with environmental issues	6
Environmental education, democracy, Thunberg, and XR	5
Addressing the climate emergency: A view from the theory of practice architectures	5
The utility and limitations of the New Ecological Paradigm scale for children	5
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	5
Cosmopolitical encounters in environmental education: Becoming-ecological in the intertidal zones of Bundjalung National Park	5
Posthuman insights for environmental education. A review of Mental health and wellbeing in the Anthropocene: A posthuman inquiry, by Jamie Mcphie. 2019, Singapore: Springer Nature. €69.99, ISB	5
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	4
Development and implementation of evaluation resources for a green outdoor educational program	4
Pandemics, capitalism, and an ecosocialist pedagogy	4
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	4
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	4
Idwi,Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology	3
Time and sustainability: A missing link in formal education curricula	3
What organizational factors motivate environmental educators to perform their best?	3
Fostering relationships between elementary students and the more-than-human world using movement and stillness	3
Greenwashing and education: An evidence-based approach	3
Digital technologies and environmental education	3
Down-to-earth ecological literacy through human and nonhuman encounters in fieldwork	3
An intersectional feminist food studies praxis: Activism and care in the COVID-19 context	3
Relationship between professional networks and practice change in environmental education	3
Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature	3
Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors	3
Enabling effective education for sustainable development: Investigating the connection between the school organization and students’ action competence	2
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	2
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	2
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	2
Connecting urban agriculture with design thinking: a case study from Zimbabwe	2
Digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for environmental educators in Barcelona	2
Caribbean dreams: Education for more than just sustainable development	2
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	2
Is naturalness associated with positive learning outcomes during environmental education field trips?	2
Our SARS-CoV-2 teacher: Teachings of the pandemic about our relations with the more-than-human world	2
Education for the future: applying concepts from the new materialist discourse to UNESCO and OECD publications	2
Model my watershed: an investigation into the role of big data, technology, and models in promoting student interest in watershed action	1
Utilizing a storyline approach to facilitating pupils’ agency in primary school sustainability education context	1
Designing environmental storylines to achieve the complementary aims of environmental and science education through science and engineering practices	1
In Memoriam—Harold R. Hungerford	1
Learning for change: Integrated teaching modules and situated learning for marine social-ecological systems change	1
Education for sustainable development: Effects of sustainability education on English language learners’ empathy and reading comprehension	1
Trauma-informed environmental education: Helping students feel safe and connected in nature	1
A better place for whom? Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education in Finland and Madagascar	1
Urban ecojustice education: Transformative learning outcomes with high school service learners	1
JEE honors activists who gave their life to protect nature	1
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	1
Unsettling “reduce-reuse-recycle”: the provocation of wastepaper and “discarding well”	1
Designing Chill City : An interactive game supporting public learning about urban planning for extreme heat	1
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	1
Predator free 2050 and pedagogy: Teaching about introduced predators in Aotearoa New Zealand	1