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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension84
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action70
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship64
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis54
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.47
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents46
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability45
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences45
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education44
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature43
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 202341
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice38
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism37
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education31
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States31
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-73630
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea27
Correction27
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]26
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium25
Teacher orientations in climate change education25
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
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education22
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world21
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?21
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea20
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context20
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program20
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program20
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education19
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England19
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives18
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education18
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues18
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change18
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis17
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children17
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training17
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices17
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions16
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-1916
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education16
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds15
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards15
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change15
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea15
A scale for assessing student understandings of marine resource conservation and sustainability: psychometric verification and the latent mean difference between genders15
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions14
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–201514
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes14
Placemaking: a new materialist theory of pedagogy14
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work14
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test14
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature13
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?13
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia13
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm13
Correction13
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park12
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change12
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States12
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap12
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
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course12
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)12
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)11
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement11
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research11
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research11
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review11
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks11
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything11
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom11
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals11
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments11
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept11
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education10
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania10
Referees for Environmental Education Research 202110
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions10
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)10
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)10
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes10
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis9
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education9
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education9
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
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions9
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs9
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning8
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education8
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues8
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project8
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative8
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum8
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development8
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks8
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior8
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education8
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values7
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences7
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education7
Is climate change a laughing matter?7
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior7
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education7
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation7
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science7
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools7
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature7
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption7
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change7
Putting plants in the picture7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version6
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
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality6
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education6
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education6
Correction6
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography6
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health6
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond6
Moving ideas in environmental education6
Identifying factors influencing attitudes towards species conservation – a transnational study in the context of zoos6
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
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology6
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool6
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects6
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials6
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool5
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis5
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa5
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops5
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?5
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective5
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation5
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability5
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts5
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study5
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada5
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics5
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet4
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta4
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems4
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?4
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve4
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings4
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change4
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea4
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance4
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–20204
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens4
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”4
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning4
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts4
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth4
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain4
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey4
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices4
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica4
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility4
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education4
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education4
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior4
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation4
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review4
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire3
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students3
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students3
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review3
Exploring the role of biospheric/egoistic values, scientific engagement, and cross-cultural effects in high school students’ willingness to take climate action3
Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition3
Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes3
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students3
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum3
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France3
‘The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through’: composing dialectical lectures as environmental education3
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes3
Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food3
Remembering Peter Fensham, a founder of Australian environmental education3
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education3
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas3
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition3
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts3
Energy literacy in elementary school textbooks in Mexico3
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development3
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed3
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching3
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature3
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties3
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL3
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize3
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education3
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England3
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school3
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
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain3
Pupils’ reflections on experiences and feelings in meditation in nature: an intercultural ecopedagogical praxis in outdoor education3
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature3
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action3
Transformative learning. Reflections on 30 years of head, heart and hands at Schumacher College3
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities3
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education3
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations: building on Bandura’s theory of human agency3
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations3
Characteristics and motivations of environmental volunteers at episodic events3
Exploring the shifts to existing schooling practices that students experience in open schooling practices3
Teaching outside as third space: toward school science that acknowledges student ecological expertise3
Addressing the climate emergency with educational approaches: a bibliometric analysis of climate change education scholarship2
Environmental educational programs in Chile: Do the characteristics of local governments affect school participation?2
Exploring young people’s perceived climate change competence2
Measuring professional action competence in education for sustainable development (PACesd)2
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning2
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
Broadening the scope of intergenerational learning in environmental education: an investigation of youth-to-educator intergenerational learning during a residential environmental education program2
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
Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students2
‘I am really scared for the future’: climate distress among Brazilian youth2
The relationship between student participation and students’ self-perceived action competence for sustainability in a whole school approach2
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education2
Early childhood education for sustainable development in the Nordic national curricula: status and content2
‘The hurricane was gritando ’: leveraging elementary students’ climate experiences through storytelling as an approach to climate justice2
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