Environmental Education Research

Article	Citations
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2025	129
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	84
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	84
Youth storytelling in climate change education: a systematic review of research designs, pedagogical scaffolding, and digital tools (2014–2024)	71
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	68
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? – A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper sec	65
Integrating religious and environmental education in Indonesian eco-pesantren: does student religiosity enhance environmental awareness?	61
Pre-service teachers and climate change education: a belief-intention gap yet to be bridged	53
Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition	51
Climate emotion and place: a mixed methods study of secondary-school students and teachers in coastal Ecuador	50
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	49
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	44
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	44
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	42
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	41
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	36
Teacher orientations in climate change education	34
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	32
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	31
Manifestation of personal, human agency, and practical dimensions for sustainability amid the climate crisis: implications for restructuring climate change education and policy	31
Correction	30
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	28
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-736	28
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	28
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	27

Environmental education in Korea: the roles and challenges of institutionalization	27
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	26
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	26
Teachers’ familiarity with and attitudes towards Education for Sustainable Development in Montenegrin elementary and secondary schools	25
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium	25
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	24
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	23
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	23
Building resilience and supporting emotional well-being in climate change education: a systematic review of school-based climate change literacy programmes for children	23
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	22
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions	22
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	21
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	21
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	20
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	20
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	19
Comparative assessment of the environmental education policies of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela	19
Intergenerational climate conversations: a Foucauldian analysis on the potentials of reversing pedagogical relations among youth	19
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	18
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	18
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	18
A life history study of Mr. Kim: transformative learning and the making of an environmental educator in South Korea	17
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	17
From object to home: rethinking the ontological orientation of Environmental Education	16
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	15
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	15
Psychosocial factors and pathways to sustainability consciousness in secondary education students: a combined approach using structural equation modeling and fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis	15
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	15
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research	15
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	14
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?	14
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	14
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	14
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	14
Correction	14
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education	14
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	14
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	14
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	14
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	14
An ethical imperative for higher education: cultivating community partnerships in climate change teacher education	13
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school context	13
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	13
Pedagogical strategies and practices in environmental and sustainability education in vocational education and training: an integrative review (1999–2024)	13
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program	13
‘We will fix the environment’: a qualitative exploration of children’s knowledge and emotional responses to the environmental crisis	12
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	12
Environmental education policies in Korea: the scopes and issues of institutionalization	12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	12
Using social network analysis to assess connections within climate and energy education organizations: A case study conducted by the Climate Literacy and Energy Awareness Network (CLEAN)	12

Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency	12
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	12
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	12
Resilience and adaptive capacity: rethinking educational structures in the age of climate crisis	12
Co-developing professional learning practices in support of a whole school approach to sustainability-oriented education	12
The didactic work of calling the existential into existence in climate change education: an analytical approach	12
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	12
Relationships between companies and schools within environmental education: a case study on water and sewage pedagogy	12
The eeVAL values: a co‑created, values‑led framework for more equitable environmental education evaluation	11
Re-worlding environmental education: assemblage literacy, compost pedagogy, and a reflexive pedagogical framework for more-than-human learning	11
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	11
Ecologizing pedagogical artifacts: teacher learning through art-based collaboration	11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	11
Teachers’ profiles for Education for Sustainable Development: implications for professional development	11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	11
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks	11
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	11
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	10
Climate justice education in the aftermath of industry: bringing community knowledges to UNESCO’s Greening Curriculum Guidance	10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	10
Rethinking climate change education research: a systematic review of methodological approaches and gaps in perspective studies	10
Unpacking environmental misinformation: a critical analysis of PragerU videos	10
Emerging themes in sustainability education in higher education institutions: a scoping review of reviews	10
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	10
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? Part II. Examining pedagogy in school field trip programs for early adolescent youth across political	9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	9
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	9
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education	9
Teacher agency for transformative climate change education: a systems analysis of determinants and deterrents	9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	9
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	9
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	9
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	9
Teaching and learning controversial issues in environmental and sustainability education: a systematic literature review and proposed heuristic	9
Copernicus Earth Observation Programme for climate education: a novel approach to design-based outreach experiences for young learners	8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	8
Experimenting with dystopian scenarios and imagined futures as a critical and creative futures perspective in Environmental and Sustainability Education	8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption	8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	8
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools	8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	8
A systematic literature review on the integration of indigenous knowledge in environmental education	8
Putting plants in the picture	8
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education	8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	8
Correction	8
Towards worldview literate climate change education: perspectives from European educators’ interviews	8
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors	8
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	8
Correction	8
Is climate change a laughing matter?	8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	8
The understanding and concerns of Nordic student teachers about climate change and their perspective on its teaching	7
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version	7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	7
What shapes students’ interest during field trips to nature? An investigation of individual interest and basic need satisfaction as predictors of the psychological state of interest	7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	7
Entangled soil: young children’s encounters with earth matter and ecological education	7
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan	7
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	7
Weaving pedagogies for the development of sustainability mindset: a framework integrating critical, dark, and drama-based approaches	7
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education	7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior	7
Rethinking environmental and sustainability education in Anthropocene: Cole’s concepts of tool enhancement, carbon trail, phallocene and atomic time as analytical lens	7
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates	7
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology	7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough	7
Bringing the sociology of sustainable consumption into conversation with Education for Sustainable Development	7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy	7
Modeling the structural interdependence of youth sustainability competencies using UNESCO’s key competency framework	7

Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education	6
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?	6
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability	6
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	6
Editorial: marine environmental education and digital technologies	6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool	6
Moving ideas in environmental education	6
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”	6
Teaching controversial sustainability issues at the junior high-school level: an explorative study of teaching traditions and associations with ways of teaching	6
Journeys through forest school: a model for understanding diverse educational experiences of children	6
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of Education for Sustainable Development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica	6
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate	6
Shifting frames or participation? How young people’s understandings of sustainability interact with their agency	6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond	6
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa	6
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective	6
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects	6
Assessing climate literacy: development and validation of the climate literacy scale with a representative Quebec sample	6
Correction	6
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality	6
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials	6
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	6
Beyond disciplinary boundaries: epistemic infrastructure and cross-disciplinary environmental reasoning among pre-service teachers	6
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada	6
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis	5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study	5
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts	5
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems	5
Beyond what teachers say: the practice reality of environmental education in Azerbaijan	5
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet	5
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance	5
Creative, effective, transformative: creative learning and educator practice in education for sustainable development	5
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe	5
Students’ attitudes towards climate change and their science career aspirations as predictors of situational motivation and knowledge	5
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?	5
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility	5
Student perspectives on quality education at their school: toward a valid and reliable questionnaire to monitor quality education for sustainability teaching	5
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta	5
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens	5
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices	5
Teaching high school chemistry through education for sustainability: a collaborative case study from Chile	5
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool	5
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica	5
Art and science integration: a framework for assessing children’s visual art posters in environmental education	5
Teachers’ perspectives about integrating environmental education in the English language curriculum in Seychelles, Mahé Island	5
Climate change education in the Mauritian and Irish primary science curricula: a comparative study	5
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth	5
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve	5
Beyond climate awareness: narrative rupture in immersive storytelling as a catalyst for transformative environmental education	5
Promoting awareness about marine biological invasions through educational games	4
The way of the researcher: integrating artistic self-expression as a reflexive partner in the study of sustainability education	4
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education	4
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas	4
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning	4
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review	4
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature	4
‘The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through’: composing dialectical lectures as environmental education	4
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review	4
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities	4
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature	4
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education	4
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain	4
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school	4
Local awareness, extracurricular activities, and youth identity: centering students’ voices for Anthropocene pedagogy in Indonesia	4
Exploring the shifts to existing schooling practices that students experience in open schooling practices	4
Countering erasures, attuning to silences, and broadening horizons: applauding and augmenting Annette Gough’s contributions to environmental education scholarship	4
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students	4
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations	4
Global climate education and its discontents: using drama to forge a new way	4
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students	4
Integrating socioscientific argumentation into action-oriented instruction for the development of action competence	4
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education	4
Climate emotions in early childhood: a conceptual framework for research, intervention, and policy action	4
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts	4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey	4
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea	4
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain	4
From sociocultural concept to academic major: the role of institutional characteristics and disciplines in institutionalizing learning for sustainability in American higher education	4
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France	4
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education	4
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed	4
Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food	4
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	4
The power of artistic practices in ESD	3
Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students	3
Navigating eco-anxiety and eco-detachment: educators’ strategies for raising environmental awareness given students’ disconnection from nature	3
Early childhood education for sustainable development in the Nordic national curricula: status and content	3
Climate change awareness and anxiety among Estonian upper secondary school students	3
‘The hurricane was gritando ’: leveraging elementary students’ climate experiences through storytelling as an approach to climate justice	3
Ecologising education beyond angels and villains	3
Education and Learning for Sustainable Futures	3
Teaching ocean literacy in science education: a systematic review	3
Editorial: environmental and sustainability education in compulsory education: challenges and practices in Francophone Europe	3
When teaching habits meet educational innovation: problematic situations in the implementation of sustainability education through ‘open schooling’	3
Examining STEM pre-service teachers’ perceptions of climate change education: insights from Morocco	3