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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension111
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘86
Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition66
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences65
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature63
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action60
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.55
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis54
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education53
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents49
Climate emotion and place: a mixed methods study of secondary-school students and teachers in coastal Ecuador46
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship42
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability42
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions38
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
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?32
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program29
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice29
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]28
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea28
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 202327
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-73627
Correction26
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium24
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context24
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England23
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium23
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world22
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education22
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program22
Teacher orientations in climate change education22
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education22
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education22
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues21
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism20
Teachers’ familiarity with and attitudes towards education for sustainable development in Montenegrin elementary and secondary schools20
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test20
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea20
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives19
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions19
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change19
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards19
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training19
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education18
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices18
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-1918
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea18
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis18
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research17
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions17
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change17
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes17
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education16
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)16
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature16
Correction16
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park15
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course15
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program14
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm14
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States14
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency14
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school-context14
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change14
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research13
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work13
The didactic work of calling the existential into existence in climate change education: an analytical approach13
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
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap13
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals13
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom13
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review13
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars13
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education12
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
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks12
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything12
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research12
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature12
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education11
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes11
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 political11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)11
Referees for Environmental Education Research 202111
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs11
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future11
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement11
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania11
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course11
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity11
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis10
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment10
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship10
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors10
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project10
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action10
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education10
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education10
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning10
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues9
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior9
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools9
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions9
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education9
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education9
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values9
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks9
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education9
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature9
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?9
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool9
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs8
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools8
Putting plants in the picture8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science8
Is climate change a laughing matter?8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education8
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course8
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior7
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools7
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of education for sustainable development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica7
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 interest7
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate7
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation7
Bringing the sociology of sustainable consumption into conversation with education for sustainable development7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough7
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences7
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
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy7
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education7
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects6
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography6
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability6
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials6
Moving ideas in environmental education6
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education6
Shifting frames or participation? How young people’s understandings of sustainability interact with their agency6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond6
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality6
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool6
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops6
Teaching controversial sustainability issues at the junior high-school level: an explorative study of teaching traditions and associations with ways of teaching6
Correction6
Journeys through forest school: a model for understanding diverse educational experiences of children6
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education6
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?6
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics6
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning5
Creative, effective, transformative: creative learning and educator practice in education for sustainable development5
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts5
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”5
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada5
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation5
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature5
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices5
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet5
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility5
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve5
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica5
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education5
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta5
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study5
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review5
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe5
Teaching high school chemistry through education for sustainability: a collaborative case study from Chile5
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–20205
Student perspectives on quality education at their school: toward a valid and reliable questionnaire to monitor quality education for sustainability teaching (QUEST-Q)5
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance5
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems5
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis5
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective5
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa5
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens5
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts5
Climate change education in the Mauritian and Irish primary science curricula: a comparative study5
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth5
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning4
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education4
Local awareness, extracurricular activities, and youth identity: centering students’ voices for Anthropocene pedagogy in Indonesia4
Countering erasures, attuning to silences, and broadening horizons: applauding and augmenting Annette Gough’s contributions to environmental education scholarship4
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education4
Global climate education and its discontents: using drama to forge a new way, K. Gallagher and C. Balt, Routledge, London, 2024, 337 pp., ISBN 978-1-03-261563-94
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students4
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts4
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education4
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings4
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England4
Exploring the shifts to existing schooling practices that students experience in open schooling practices4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey4
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain4
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school4
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas4
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France4
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students4
Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food4
Helping young people cope with eco-anxiety: a qualitative intervention study4
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature4
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior4
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition4
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change4
From sociocultural concept to academic major: the role of institutional characteristics and disciplines in institutionalizing learning for sustainability in American higher education4
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation4
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea4
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students4
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations4
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed4
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review4
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain4
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire4
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL4
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education4
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature4
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize3
Thinking with student perspectives on sustainability to cultivate care-full sustainability education3
The power of artistic practices in ESD3
Ecologising education beyond angels and villains3
An iterative adaptive developmental evaluation framework: case study of the TREE semester learning community3
Development and validation of the sustainability competence vignette questionnaire (SC-VQ) for early adolescents3
Let’s read green! A comparison between approaches in different disciplines to enhance preservice teachers’ environmental attitudes3
An innovative framework for teaching climate change: integrating emotion coping strategies and exploring a new climate emotion scale among Canadian youth3
Practising immanence: Living with theory and environmental educationPractising immanence: Living with theory and environmental education, edited by David A. G. Clarke, London, Routledge, 2024, 249 pp.3
When teaching habits meet educational innovation: problematic situations in the implementation of sustainability education through ‘open schooling’3
Paradigm shift: changes in willingness to take pro-environmental behavior in the midst of the COVID pandemic among European pre-service teachers3
Chemistry teachers’ perspectives and understanding in integrating sustainability into teaching: the case of Chile3
Building capacity for socio-ecological change through the campus farm: a mixed-methods study3
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education3
Framing engagement and public participation in local climate conferences3
Energy literacy in elementary school textbooks in Mexico3
Examining STEM pre-service teachers’ perceptions of climate change education: insights from Morocco3
‘The hurricane was gritando ’: leveraging elementary students’ climate experiences through storytelling as an approach to climate justice3
Between evidence and delusion – a scoping review of cognitive biases in Environmental and Sustainability Education3
‘Low pressure’, ‘high commitment’, and ‘low control’ – latent profile analysis of teachers’ perceptions regarding teaching climate action as a socio-scientific issue3
Pupils’ reflections on experiences and feelings in meditation in nature: an intercultural ecopedagogical praxis in outdoor education3
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