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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Safe spaces or a pedagogy of discomfort? Senior high-school teachers’ meta-emotion philosophies and climate change education	39
Global politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other current issues of environmental justice	26
COVID-19 and the desire of children to return to nature: Emotions in the face of environmental and intergenerational injustices	21
Resilience, collaboration, and agency: Galapagos teachers confronting the disruption of COVID-19	20
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	17
Relationality and resilience: Environmental education in a time of pandemic and climate crisis	14
“Looking garbage in the eyes”: From recycling to reducing consumerism- transformative environmental education at a waste treatment facility	13
A comparative analysis of environment and sustainability in policy across subnational education systems	13
Addressing the climate emergency: A view from the theory of practice architectures	12
Supporting local school reform toward education for sustainable development: The need for creating and continuously negotiating a shared vision and building trust	12
Justice-centered education amid the COVID-19 pandemic	11
Mindfulness as self-confirmation? An exploratory intervention study on potentials and limitations of mindfulness-based interventions in the context of environmental and sustainability education	10
Understanding and responding to challenges students face when engaging in carbon cycle pool-and-flux reasoning	9
The utility and limitations of the New Ecological Paradigm scale for children	9
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	9
Greenwashing and education: An evidence-based approach	9
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	9
Using value-belief-norm theory to explore visitor responses to education programs at animal-themed facilities	8
Indigenous environmental media coverage in Canada and the United States: A comparative critical discourse analysis	8
Learning for life: ESD, ecopedagogy and the new spirit of capitalism	7
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	7
A better place for whom? Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education in Finland and Madagascar	7
Exploring local environmental change through filmmaking: The Lentes en Cambio Climático program	6
Pandemics, capitalism, and an ecosocialist pedagogy	6
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	6

Ecopedagogical literacy of a pandemic: Teaching to critically read the politics of COVID-19 with environmental issues	6
Enabling effective education for sustainable development: Investigating the connection between the school organization and students’ action competence	5
Time and sustainability: A missing link in formal education curricula	5
An intersectional feminist food studies praxis: Activism and care in the COVID-19 context	5
Development and implementation of evaluation resources for a green outdoor educational program	5
Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature	5
Connecting urban agriculture with design thinking: a case study from Zimbabwe	5
Cosmopolitical encounters in environmental education: Becoming-ecological in the intertidal zones of Bundjalung National Park	5
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	5
Designing environmental storylines to achieve the complementary aims of environmental and science education through science and engineering practices	4
Digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for environmental educators in Barcelona	4
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	4
Education for the future: applying concepts from the new materialist discourse to UNESCO and OECD publications	4
Unsettling “reduce-reuse-recycle”: the provocation of wastepaper and “discarding well”	4
The development of a Competence Framework for Environmental Education complying with the European Qualifications Framework and the European Green Deal	4
Education for sustainable development: Effects of sustainability education on English language learners’ empathy and reading comprehension	4
Fostering relationships between elementary students and the more-than-human world using movement and stillness	4
Idwi,Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology	4
Digital technologies and environmental education	4
Down-to-earth ecological literacy through human and nonhuman encounters in fieldwork	4
Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors	4
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	3
Caribbean dreams: Education for more thanjustsustainable development	3
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	3
Our SARS-CoV-2 teacher: Teachings of the pandemic about our relations with the more-than-human world	3
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	3
Relationship between professional networks and practice change in environmental education	3
Learning for change: Integrated teaching modules and situated learning for marine social-ecological systems change	3
What organizational factors motivate environmental educators to perform their best?	3
Is naturalness associated with positive learning outcomes during environmental education field trips?	2
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	2
Urban ecojustice education: Transformative learning outcomes with high school service learners	2
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	2
Trauma-informed environmental education: Helping students feel safe and connected in nature	2
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	2
Education to build agency in the Anthropocene	2
Utilizing a storyline approach to facilitating pupils’ agency in primary school sustainability education context	2
Examining the influence of citizen science participation on individual volunteers in the global South: A case study of hydrologic monitors in Veracruz, Mexico	2
Model my watershed: an investigation into the role of big data, technology, and models in promoting student interest in watershed action	2
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	2
Nature as a peace educator: Toward inner peace through learning and being in natural environments	1
Designing Chill City : An interactive game supporting public learning about urban planning for extreme heat	1
Predator free 2050 and pedagogy: Teaching about introduced predators in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Exploring conceptions of sustainability education in initial teacher education: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and Scotland	1
Ghanaian college teachers’ experiences and perceptions of traditional environmental beliefs and practices: Implications for environmental education	1
Crowded waters: A pedagogical review of recent environmental humanities introductory texts	1
Transformative ecojustice pedagogies: Outcomes of sociology students mentoring high school service learners	1
Environmental Citizenship: Dutch students’ sustainability competences and avenues for science education	1
Education and full employment in the Capitalocene: Political possibilities, ecological imperatives	1
In Memoriam—Harold R. Hungerford	1

An educational board game to promote the engagement of electric engineering students in ethical building of a sustainable and fair future