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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	26
A statement clamoring for peace in Palestine and Israel	23
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	21
Prompts for eco-social transformation: What environmental education can learn from transformative design	20
Pandemics, capitalism, and an ecosocialist pedagogy	14
Education for the future: applying concepts from the new materialist discourse to UNESCO and OECD publications	14
Conservation behavior can defy traditional predictors	13
Ecopedagogical literacy of a pandemic: Teaching to critically read the politics of COVID-19 with environmental issues	13
Fostering relationships between elementary students and the more-than-human world using movement and stillness	12
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	12
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	11
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	10
Down-to-earth ecological literacy through human and nonhuman encounters in fieldwork	9
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	9
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	9
Resilience, collaboration, and agency: Galapagos teachers confronting the disruption of COVID-19	9
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	9
“It should not only be technical education.” Students’ climate anxiety experiences and expectations toward university education in three European universities	8
Exploring youth eco-literacy through lived experiences. ‘When you purchase a pair of jeans, you bear the burden of child labor in South Asia’	7
Global politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other current issues of environmental justice	7
Tuscarora nation lands and the New York State Power authority: an environmental justice education approach to decolonizing curriculum	7
Using value-belief-norm theory to explore visitor responses to education programs at animal-themed facilities	6
A systematic review of climate change literacy assessment methods	6
A comparative analysis of environment and sustainability in policy across subnational education systems	6
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	6

Cassandras Of A Second Kind	5
Between the local and the global: The tension of cultivating a bi-directional ecocritical awareness in education	5
Action-oriented approaches to teaching environmental science in Bhutanese secondary schools: Stakeholder perceptions	5
In Memoriam: Torvald Jacobsson	5
JEE stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine	5
What organizational factors motivate environmental educators to perform their best?	4
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	4
An educational board game to promote the engagement of electric engineering students in ethical building of a sustainable and fair future	4
Addressing the climate emergency: A view from the theory of practice architectures	4
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	4
Education to build agency in the Anthropocene	4
Energy literacy: A review in education	4
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	4
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	4
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	4
Dialogues between agroecology and environmental education amidst contemporary socio-environmental challenges: A systematic literature review	4
Exploring conceptions of sustainability education in initial teacher education: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and Scotland	3
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	3
Environmental Citizenship: Dutch students’ sustainability competences and avenues for science education	3
Transformative ecojustice pedagogies: Outcomes of sociology students mentoring high school service learners	3
Caribbean dreams: Education for more thanjustsustainable development	3
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	3
“Looking garbage in the eyes”: From recycling to reducing consumerism- transformative environmental education at a waste treatment facility	3
COVID-19 and the desire of children to return to nature: Emotions in the face of environmental and intergenerational injustices	3
Our SARS-CoV-2 teacher: Teachings of the pandemic about our relations with the more-than-human world	2
Model my watershed: an investigation into the role of big data, technology, and models in promoting student interest in watershed action	2
Learning for change: Integrated teaching modules and situated learning for marine social-ecological systems change	2
Education for sustainable development: Effects of sustainability education on English language learners’ empathy and reading comprehension	2
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	2
Using civic ecology education to foster social-ecological resilience: A case study from Southern California	2
Digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for environmental educators in Barcelona	2
First as waste, then as feral: The garbological imaginary of Korean stories for decolonizing a wasted world	2
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	2
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	2
Urban ecojustice education: Transformative learning outcomes with high school service learners	2
Justice-centered education amid the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Mindfulness as self-confirmation? An exploratory intervention study on potentials and limitations of mindfulness-based interventions in the context of environmental and sustainability education	1
Socio-educational practices of community environmental educators from territories affected by socio-environmental conflicts and socio-natural disasters in Chile: roles, ethics, and methodologies	1
Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education	1
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	1
Predator free 2050 and pedagogy: Teaching about introduced predators in Aotearoa New Zealand	1
Wild pedagogies: touchstones for renegotiating education and the environment in the Anthropoceneedited by Bob Jickling, Sean Blenkinsop, Nora Timmerman and Michael De Danann Sitka-Sage. Palgrave Studi	1
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	1
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	1
Correction	1
Understanding and responding to challenges students face when engaging in carbon cycle pool-and-flux reasoning	1