Environmental Education Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Education Research 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.78
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability62
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension62
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship54
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences53
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education46
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature44
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis43
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents43
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?43
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action43
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 202342
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program41
Predicting engineering students’ desire to address climate change in their careers: an exploratory study using responses from a U.S. National survey35
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context30
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice30
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education29
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education27
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States26
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-73626
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea24
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism24
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England24
Correction24
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?23
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea22
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education21
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]21
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education20
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues20
Teacher orientations in climate change education20
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world20
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium20
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education19
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives19
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program19
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–201518
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training18
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis17
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research17
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices17
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children16
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test16
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-1915
A scale for assessing student understandings of marine resource conservation and sustainability: psychometric verification and the latent mean difference between genders15
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change15
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards15
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions15
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)14
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change14
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course14
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds14
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature14
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea14
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States13
Placemaking: a new materialist theory of pedagogy13
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions13
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia13
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes12
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work12
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars12
Walking practices with/in nature(s) as ecopedagogy in outdoor environmental education: An autophenomenographic study12
Correction12
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?12
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change12
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park11
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program11
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments11
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)11
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap11
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)11
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature11
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm11
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review11
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research11
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything11
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement10
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science10
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future10
Referees for Environmental Education Research 202110
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom10
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity10
Navigating inclusion and legitimacy in campus-community environmental partnerships to advance urban social-ecological resilience10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes10
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education10
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions10
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept10
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs10
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment9
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action9
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education9
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach9
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 political9
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania9
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course9
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education8
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning8
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions8
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues8
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education8
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship8
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development8
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis8
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks8
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project8
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?7
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education7
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan7
Is climate change a laughing matter?7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change7
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs7
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education7
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools7
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students7
Educators’ intentions for learning in Virtual School Garden Exchanges: a comparison with the aims of Education for Sustainable Development7
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool7
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education7
Putting plants in the picture7
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature7
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values7
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education7
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science7
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation6
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education6
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior6
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough6
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 interest6
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate6
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy6
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum6
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health6
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course6
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography6
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond6
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals6
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version6
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices6
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools6
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences6
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects6
Moving ideas in environmental education5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study5
Identifying factors influencing attitudes towards species conservation – a transnational study in the context of zoos5
Correction5
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education5
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool5
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility5
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials5
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education5
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops5
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics5
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?5
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality5
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability5
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta4
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe4
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool4
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance4
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis4
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve4
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation4
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review4
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet4
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems4
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica4
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective4
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey4
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts4
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth4
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education4
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens4
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning4
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices4
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa4
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?4
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students4
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”4
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–20204
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts4
Future teachers facing the problem of climate change: meat consumption, perceived responsibility, and willingness to act4
Characteristics and motivations of environmental volunteers at episodic events3
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts3
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France3
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations3
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation3
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature3
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea3
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school3
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature3
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching3
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students3
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England3
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL3
Remembering Peter Fensham, a founder of Australian environmental education3
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education3
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas3
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior3
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education3
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain3
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain3
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students3
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes3
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed3
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature3
Transformative learning. Reflections on 30 years of head, heart and hands at Schumacher College3
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change3
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review3
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions3
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning3
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire3
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education3
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings3
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition3
Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes3
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education3
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning2
Teaching ocean literacy in science education: a systematic review2
Paradigm shift: changes in willingness to take pro-environmental behavior in the midst of the COVID pandemic among European pre-service teachers2
Broadening the scope of intergenerational learning in environmental education: an investigation of youth-to-educator intergenerational learning during a residential environmental education program2
‘I am really scared for the future’: climate distress among Brazilian youth2
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education2
Navigating eco-anxiety and eco-detachment: educators’ strategies for raising environmental awareness given students’ disconnection from nature2
Assessment and validation: an updated climate change Plausibility Perception Measure2
When teaching habits meet educational innovation: problematic situations in the implementation of sustainability education through ‘open schooling’2
“It was funny at first” exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students2
Enhancing preschoolers’ creativity through art-based environmental education for sustainability2
The representation of sustainable development goals in a national curriculum: a content analysis of Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines2
Connecting gender equality with sustainability in early childhood: educators understandings in Victoria, Australia2
Editorial: environmental and sustainability education in compulsory education: challenges and practices in Francophone Europe2
Examining STEM pre-service teachers’ perceptions of climate change education: insights from Morocco2
The perceived effect of environmental and sustainability education on environmental literacy of Czech teenagers2
Ecologising education beyond angels and villains2
An iterative adaptive developmental evaluation framework: case study of the TREE semester learning community2
Climate change education in primary schools: using arts-based methods to access student voice and examine the English National Curriculum2
Early childhood education for sustainable development in the Nordic national curricula: status and content2
Transforming pedagogical landscapes in the Anthropocene: perspectives on more-than-human agency and nature as a co-teacher in vernacular ways2
Exploring young people’s perceived climate change competence2
An environmental and sustainability education center in Israel as a “street-level policy entrepreneur” for promoting teachers as change agents for sustainability2
Learning towards environmental sustainability practices: insights from a values-based participatory research approach2
Exploring the environmental value action gap in education research: a semi-systematic literature review2
Measuring professional action competence in education for sustainable development (PACesd)2
The power of artistic practices in ESD2
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