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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The effectiveness and implementation of a humane education program in China: Promoting socio-emotional and ecological competencies among elementary school students	67
Learning with lands and waters: Visiting as an indigenous feminist practice in climate education	39
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	36
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	33
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	23
Thinking with racialized educators’ embodied experiences of climate coloniality: Implications for education	22
Greening higher education in Europe: institutional transitions to sustainable development	20
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	19
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	18
Disrupted sustainability? - Students’ environmental practices from home to campus	18
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	17
Religion, narrative, and the environmental humanities: bridging the rhetoric gap	16
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	15
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	14
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	14
“Time is different working with the land”: Temporal pedagogies in European ecovillages	13
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	13
Youth understandings of economic growth and ecological sustainability	13
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	11
What can the Romans do for us? The role of classics in delivering learning for sustainability	10
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	10
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	10
Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development	10
Housing in the Capitalocene : Environmental education and sustainable living	9
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	9

At the intersection of environmental learning and special education: Hidden opportunities	9
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	9
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	9
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	9
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	8
WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy	8
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	8
Stockholm +50, Tbilisi +45, Rio +30: Research, praxis, and policy	8
The role of environmental ideologies in environmental education	8
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene	8
Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	7
Growing agency in food systems education: Navigating tensions in experiential learning in agriculture	7
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	7
The role of emotional messaging in climate education: Hope vs. fear appeals and student efficacy	7
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	7
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
Systemic impacts of sustainability education: A case study of New York Sun Works	6
Perspectives and practices of education for sustainable development: a critical guide for higher education	6
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	6
Long-term influences of participation in an earth education program in middle school	6
Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature	5
The dirtiness of clean: Unearthing settler logics that sustain spatial woundings in the Capitalocene	5
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	5
Designing sustainable schemes: Integrating Vergnaud and Morin in education for sustainability	5
Supporting local school reform toward education for sustainable development: The need for creating and continuously negotiating a shared vision and building trust	5
“Are these girl ladybugs or boy ladybugs?”: An exploratory study on gender in nature-based education	5
Teaching under an orange sky: Toward reimagining educational purpose on a damaged planet	5
Tbilisi’s “Sounds Of Silence”—(In)action in the policy ≠ embodiments of environmental education	5
Insect collecting with K-12 aged students: Balancing educational value and ethical considerations	5
Eco-rational education: An educational response to environmental crisis	5
Beyond exposure: How parental discussions and student grade levels moderate the relationship between children’s nature interaction and pro-environmental behaviors	4
Action-oriented approaches to teaching environmental science in Bhutanese secondary schools: Stakeholder perceptions	4
Environmental Citizenship: Dutch students’ sustainability competences and avenues for science education	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
A global-scale examination of associations between education and climate vulnerability and adaptability	4
Envisioning educational pathways for climate change competencies: Insights from a Delphi study	4
Green minds across borders: A cross-cultural study of how green education shapes university students’ behavior in China and Ecuador	4
Assessment of sustainability competencies in primary education: A systematic review	3
The importance of (not just visual) interaction with nature: A study with the Girl Scouts	3
The Well Living in Territory of Mato Grosso do Sul: The historical (re)existence of Pantanal and Cerratenses populations	3
A systematic literature review on the impact of XR on pro-environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors	3
Family matters: intergenerational influences on children’s agricultural literacy	3
Bridging worlds: A critical realist approach to integrating Indigenous and scientific knowledge for sustainable education	3
A manifesto: Co-constructing contemporary climate change education	3
Local and scientific knowledges in a place-based sustainability education program: Effects on undergraduates’ connection to a rural area in Hong Kong	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 gardens as commons, the commons as classroom: Abolitionist civic learning in practice	3
A cross-institutional survey of undergraduate students knowledge about climate change	3
Tuscarora nation lands and the New York State Power authority: an environmental justice education approach to decolonizing curriculum	2

The Deep Time Walk as a transformative learning practice: Including the inner and ecological dimensions in learning as sustainability	2
Prompts for eco-social transformation: What environmental education can learn from transformative design	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
Fossil fuel interests, climate obstructionism, and higher education policy: A critique of the Australian Universities Accord	2
Prospects for embedding environment-related literacies in Indonesian high schools	2
Integrating circular economy education into education for sustainable development: A conceptual advancement and typology of integration strategies	2
First as waste, then as feral: The garbological imaginary of Korean stories for decolonizing a wasted world	2
“The name of things”: Lexical ecological literacy as Bildung in environmental and sustainability education	2
Teacher continuous professional development in climate change education: Analyzing teachers’ perspectives	2
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	2