Environmental Education Research

Article	Citations
Self-perceived action competence for sustainability: the theoretical grounding and empirical validation of a novel research instrument	47
Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change	46
Making education for sustainable development happen in elementary schools: the role of teachers	42
Plant blindness: a faddish research interest or a substantive impediment to achieve sustainable development goals?	39
Influence of the natural setting on environmental education outcomes	37
When screens replace backyards: strategies to connect digital-media-oriented young people to nature	37
The effectiveness of education for sustainable development revisited – a longitudinal study on secondary students’ action competence for sustainability	37
Escape rooms as tools for climate change education: an exploration of initiatives	34
Teaching contributions from secondary school subject areas to education for sustainable development – a comparative study of science, social science and language teachers	33
Teachers’ perspectives on sustainable development: the implications for education for sustainable development	32
Using a Delphi study to clarify the landscape and core outcomes in environmental education	32
Student perspectives on climate change through place-based filmmaking	31
From childhood nature experiences to adult pro-environmental behaviors: An explanatory model of sustainable food consumption	30
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum	28
Climate change education and communication in global review: tracking progress through national submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat	25
Participatory research on using virtual reality to teach ocean acidification: a study in the marine education community	25
Towards climate justice education: views from activists and educators in Scotland	25
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education	25
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change	25
Enhancing children’s literacy and ecological literacy through critical place-based pedagogy	24
Interdisciplinary primary school curriculum units for sustainable development	24
Do pre-visit preparation and post-visit activities improve student outcomes on field trips?	24
Environmental perceptions and pro-environmental behavior – comparing different measuring approaches	24
Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales	24
Youth voice on climate change: using factor analysis to understand the intersection of science, politics, and emotion	22

Teaching about sustainability through inquiry-based science in Irish primary classrooms: the impact of a professional development programme on teacher self-efficacy, competence and pedagogy	21
Sharing a place-based indigenous methodology and learnings	21
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students	21
The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation	20
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action	20
Growing up in a tourist destination: developing an environmental sensitivity	20
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	20
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	19
Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school	18
Children in nature: exploring the relationship between childhood outdoor experience and environmental stewardship	18
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development	18
Challenging amnesias: re-collecting feminist new materialism/ecofeminism/climate/education	17
Influence of educator’s emotional support behaviors on environmental education student outcomes	17
Exploring the relationships between risk perception, behavioural willingness, and constructive hope in pro-environmental behaviour	16
The political dimension in environmental education curricula: Towards an integrative conceptual and analytical framework	16
Place-responsive Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: attuning with the more-than-human	16
Why is it important to protect the environment? Reasons presented by young children	16
Education for sustainability in early childhood education: a systematic review	15
Quantifying the long-term impact of zoological education: a study of learning in a zoo and an aquarium	15
Textbooks and action competence for sustainable development: an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in geography and biology	15
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	15
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior	14
Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience	14
Empowerment in outdoor environmental education: who shapes the programs?	14
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research	14
Long-term impacts of two secondary school environmental studies programs on environmental behaviour: the shadows of patriarchy and neoliberalism	14
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability	13
‘We must urgently learn to live differently’: the biopolitics ofESD for 2030	13
Mindfulness in education for sustainable development to nurture socioemotional competencies: a systematic review and meta-analysis	13
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education	13
Colombia’s national policy of environmental education: a critical discourse analysis	13
Learning to survive amidst nested crises: can the coronavirus pandemic help us change educational practices to prepare for the impending eco-crisis?	13
Analysing the state of student participation in two Eco-Schools using Engeström’s Second Generation Activity Systems Model	13
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes	12
The identity work of environmental education teachers in Israel	12
Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education	12
Actions for sustainable development through young students’ eyes	12
Climate change in public health and medical curricula in Australia and New Zealand: a mixed methods study of educator perceptions of barriers and areas for further action	11
Classroom-based citizen science: impacts on students’ science identity, nature connectedness, and curricular knowledge	11
Is climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees	11
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	11
Didactical dilemmas when planning teaching for sustainable development in preschool	11
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	11
New materialisms and environmental education: editorial	11
Residential marine field-course impacts on ocean literacy	11
Participation and why it matters: children’s perspectives and expressions of ownership, motivation, collective efficacy and self-efficacy and locus of control	10
A comparison of California and Texas secondary science teachers’ perceptions of climate change	10
Integration of indigenous and local knowledge into sustainability education: a systematic literature review	10
“I have a little, little, little footprint on the world” and “I’m not political”: feelings of low self-efficacy and the effect of identity on environmental behaviour in educators	10
It’s about time: perceived barriers to in-service teacher climate change professional development	10

Environmental concern among Chinese youth: the roles of knowledge and cultural bias	9
Which approaches are associated with better outcomes? Evidence from a national study of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent youth in the United States	9
Understanding policymakers’ perspectives on evidence use as a mechanism for improving research-policy relationships	9
Development and validation of an instrument for measuring action competence in sustainable development within early adolescents: the action competence in sustainable development questionnaire (ACiSD-Q	9
To shine or not to shine? – The relationship between environmental knowledge of preteens and their choice among plastic and non-plastic materials for a manual task	9
Understanding the research-policy relationship in ESE: insights from the critical policy and evidence use literatures	9
Measuring professional action competence in education for sustainable development (PACesd)	9
Teachers’ uptake of problematic assumptions of climate change in the NGSS	9
Recontextualising Education for Sustainable Development in pedagogic practice in Vietnam: linking Bernsteinian and constructivist perspectives	9
Bureaucratic exercise? Education for sustainable development in Taiwan through the stories of policy implementers	9
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	9
Dark pedagogy – speculative realism and environmental and sustainability education	9
Connectedness is in my character: the relationship between nature relatedness and character strengths	9
Building key competencies into an environmental education curriculum using a modified Delphi approach in South Korea	8
The changing and complex entanglements of research and policy making in education: issues for environmental and sustainability education	8
Thinking through making: junk paddles, distant forests and pedagogical possibilities	8
The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education	8
Adaptive doctors in Australia: preparing tomorrow’s doctors for practice in a world destabilised by declining planetary health	8
Middle school science teachers’ agency to implement place-based education curricula about local wildlife	8
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning	8
Pre-school teaching for creative processes in education for sustainable development – invisible animal traces, purple hands, and an elk container	8
Environmental and sustainability education in the Caribbean: Crucial issues, critical imperatives	8
Encounters with climate change and its psychosocial aspects through performance making among young people	8
Contribution of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project to the development of students’ environmental literacy	8
Community-as-pedagogy: environmental leadership for youth in rural Costa Rica	8
Changing stigma on wild animals: a qualitative assessment of urban pupils’ pre- and post-lesson drawings	7
Doing curious research to cultivate tentacular becomings	7
Learning with vital materialities: weather assemblage pedagogies in early childhood education	7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	7
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	7
The effect of information source on higher education students’ sustainability knowledge	7
The political dimension of consuming animal products in education: An analysis of upper-secondary student responses when school lunch turns green and vegan	7
Environmental education and socio-ecological resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from educational action research	7
Pandemic shift: Meeting the challenges of moving post-secondary environmental education online	7
Community climate resilience and environmental education: Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning	7
Environmental education leadership – the perceptions of elementary school principals as expressed in their drawings and explanations	7
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	7
A theoretical framework to address education for sustainability for an earlier transition to a just, low carbon and circular economy	7
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children	6
Extending the concept of pro-environmental action and behaviour: a binary perspective	6
Scoping reviews: Their development and application in environmental and sustainability education research	6
Using online tools in participatory research with adolescents to promote civic engagement and environmental mobilization: the WaterCircle (WC) project	6
Secondary school students’ familiarity with animals and plants: hometown size matters	6
Environment and sustainability education research as policy engagement: (re-) invigorating ‘politics as potentia’ in South Africa	6
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships: Reflections and analysis from New York City	6
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions	6
Weather bodies: experimenting with dance improvisation in environmental education in the early years	6
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	6
An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers	6
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	6
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development	6
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students	6
National policy guidelines and early childhood sustainability education: an analysis of match and gaps in preschool curricula plans	6
Learning with student climate strikers’ humour: towards critical affective climate justice literacies	6
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation	6
Dealing with global environmental change: the design and validation of the GEC attitude scale	6
Sustainability education research and policy in Cyprus: an investigation into their roles and relationships	5
A portrait of environmental integration in United States K-12 art education	5
Identifying factors influencing attitudes towards species conservation – a transnational study in the context of zoos	5
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize	5
Justice in climate change education: a systematic review	5
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	5
What effective design strategies do rural, underserved students in STEM clubs value while learning about climate change?	5
Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students	5
Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education	5
The effects of educator’s level of environmental literacy on their issue identification practices	5
Managing the GAP between rich and poor? Biopolitics and (ab)normalized inequality in South African education for sustainable development	5
Sustainability in out-of-school science education: identifying the unique potentials	5
A didactic toolkit for climate change educators: lessons from constructive journalism for emotionally sensitive and democratic content design	5
A reflection on the relational aspects of research policy interfaces	5
Exploring the role of learning in sustainability transitions: a case study using a novel analytical approach	5
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts	5
Citizenship education for environmental sustainability in Lebanon: public school teachers’ understandings and approaches	5
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics	5
Reviewing education for sustainable development practices in South African eco-schools	5
Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education	5
From concern to behavior: barriers and enablers of adolescents’ pro-environmental behavior in a school context	5
Modelling pre-service science teachers’ pro-environmental behaviours in relation to psychological and cognitive variables	5
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings	5
Designing an extension Climate Stewards volunteer program: incorporating sense of community, social practice, and self-efficacy theories	5

Future teachers facing the problem of climate change: meat consumption, perceived responsibility, and willingness to act	4
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	4
“The tree was there first” – using an everyday ecological dilemma to explore the personal orientations of secondary school students in environmental decision-making	4
Sustainable food education: what food preparation competences are needed to support vegetable consumption?	4
Seeing climate change: psychological distance and connection to nature	4
Through their lenses: Arab students' environmental documentation and action	4
Environmental education in teaching science on the Wadden Sea ecosystem: What are the effects on environmental psychological constructs?	4
Limits of caring: pre-service teachers’ reasons for not taking high-impact actions to mitigate climate change	4
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning	4
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?	4
Sustainability and the 2030 Agenda within schools: A study of school principals’ engagement and perceptions	4
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	4
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	4
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	4
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	4
Facilitating democratic processes for sustainability: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	4
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations: building on Bandura’s theory of human agency	4
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	4
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature	4
Reflections on the science–policy interface within education for sustainable development in Germany	4
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire	4
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities	3
Narratives and impacts of formal climate education experienced by young climate activists	3
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	3
Protect + prevent = preserve? Exploring students’ arguments for and attitudes toward conservation	3
Gender equality and climate justice programming for youth in low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of gaps and opportunities	3
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	3
A systematic mixed studies review of civic engagement outcomes in environmental education	3
Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape	3
Aesthetical experiences in direct nature meetings: a phenomenological study on experiences of forest, plants and education	3
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation	3
25 years on: looking back at environmental education research	3
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	3
Assessment of cross-cutting competences in education for sustainable development	3
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	3
Politicizing the learning of Sustainable Development Goals through drama performances and agonistic debates: a teacher training experience from the perspective of radical democracy	3
Decoding gender in nature-based education: perceptions of environmental educators	3
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	3
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	3
Analysing the construction of ‘sustainability’ in lower secondary school technology syllabi in Ireland	3
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	3
Perspectives of youths on cultural ecosystem services provided by Tun Mustapha Park, Malaysia through a participatory approach	3
Using social network analysis to explore and expand our understanding of a robust environmental learning landscape	3
Promoting an environmental education project: the eco-picture diary in Yokohama City, Japan	3
Growing garden-based learning: mapping practical and theoretical work through design	3
Reconfiguring environmental sustainability in early childhood education: a post-anthropocentric approach	3
Building capacity for socio-ecological change through the campus farm: a mixed-methods study	3
Meaning-making in higher education for sustainable development: undergraduates’ long-term processes of experiencing and learning	3
Developing ESD-specific professional action competence for teachers: knowledge, skills, and attitudes in implementing ESD at the school level	3
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	3
Is climate change a laughing matter?	3
Getting “really close”: relational processes between youth, educators, and more-than-human beings as a unit of analysis	3
Development and formation of ESE policy: learning from teachers and local authorities	3
Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures	3
Local and global (f)actors in environmental and sustainability education policies: the case of New York City public schools	3
Listening to Heartbeat: the pulse of ecofeminism in a picturebook	3
The perceived effect of environmental and sustainability education on environmental literacy of Czech teenagers	3
Using Lucie Sauvé’s environmental education typology: a systematic synthesis of citations	3
Pre-schoolers as systems thinkers: testing the water	3
An investigation into the influence of outdoor environmental education courses on the environmental attitude and behaviours of Malaysian participants: a life history approach	3
Let’s read green! A comparison between approaches in different disciplines to enhance preservice teachers’ environmental attitudes	3
Participatory action research (PAR) and environmental education (EE): a Mexican experience with teachers from a primary rural school	3
Climate fiction and young learners’ thoughts—a dialogue between literature and education	3
Forest education as contribution to education for environmental citizenship and non-anthropocentric perspectives	2
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France	2
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]	2
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	2
Sustainability competences in primary school education – a systematic literature review	2
Envisioning low-carbon futures: possibility and hope as part of climate change teacher education	2
Data triangulation confirms learning in the zoo environment	2
Fostering students’ systems thinking competence for sustainability by using multiple real-world learning approaches	2
What people learn from death: exploring citizen scientists’ learning outcomes in Taiwan Roadkill Observation Network from an environmental education perspective	2
Extinction, education and the curious practice of visiting thrombolites	2
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health	2
Exploring pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy, content knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge concerning education for sustainable development	2
Flowing magma bodies: towards a relational understanding of imaginative pedagogical possibilities	2
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education	2
How is biodiversity understood in compulsory education textbooks? A lexicographic analysis of teaching programs in the French-speaking part of Switzerland	2
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility	2
Exploring the value of a BioBlitz as a biodiversity education tool in a post-secondary environment	2
The teacher’s role for engagement in foraging and gardening activities in kindergarten	2
Walking practices with/in nature(s) as ecopedagogy in outdoor environmental education: An autophenomenographic study	2
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials	2
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–2015	2
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties	2
Shaping pro-environmental attitudes among public service trainees: an experimental study	2
Transformative learning in graduate global change education drives conceptual shift in invasive species co-management and collaboration	2
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas	2
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments	2
Biology student teachers’ interest and self-efficacy in planning and conducting field trips after participation in a university course	2
Agricultural and environmental education: a call for meaningful collaboration in a U.S. context	2
How is cognitive reappraisal related to adolescents’ willingness to act on mitigating climate change? The mediating role of climate change risk perception and believed usefulness of actions	2
Institutionalising interdisciplinarity in PhD training: challenging and redefining expertise in problem-oriented research	2
Reconfiguring the everyday: plastic waste as performance art in addressing the incongruity between the ‘talk’ and the ‘walk’ in the plastic crisis	2
Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition	2