Environmental Education Research

Article	Citations
Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change	64
The effectiveness of education for sustainable development revisited – a longitudinal study on secondary students’ action competence for sustainability	50
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum	42
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education	39
Teachers’ perspectives on sustainable development: the implications for education for sustainable development	37
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	36
Climate change education and communication in global review: tracking progress through national submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat	32
Environmental perceptions and pro-environmental behavior – comparing different measuring approaches	32
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action	32
Towards climate justice education: views from activists and educators in Scotland	31
Exploring the relationships between risk perception, behavioural willingness, and constructive hope in pro-environmental behaviour	30
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change	30
Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales	29
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development	27
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	27
Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school	26
The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation	26
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students	25
Children in nature: exploring the relationship between childhood outdoor experience and environmental stewardship	25
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	25
Education for sustainability in early childhood education: a systematic review	25
Place-responsive Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: attuning with the more-than-human	23
Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience	21
The political dimension in environmental education curricula: Towards an integrative conceptual and analytical framework	21
Learning to survive amidst nested crises: can the coronavirus pandemic help us change educational practices to prepare for the impending eco-crisis?	20

Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	20
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research	19
Why is it important to protect the environment? Reasons presented by young children	19
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability	18
Justice in climate change education: a systematic review	18
It’s about time: perceived barriers to in-service teacher climate change professional development	17
Actions for sustainable development through young students’ eyes	17
Textbooks and action competence for sustainable development: an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in geography and biology	16
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior	16
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education	16
Community climate resilience and environmental education: Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning	16
Classroom-based citizen science: impacts on students’ science identity, nature connectedness, and curricular knowledge	16
‘We must urgently learn to live differently’: the biopolitics ofESD for 2030	15
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	15
Integration of indigenous and local knowledge into sustainability education: a systematic literature review	15
A comparison of California and Texas secondary science teachers’ perceptions of climate change	14
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes	14
Scoping reviews: Their development and application in environmental and sustainability education research	14
Is climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees	14
New materialisms and environmental education: editorial	14
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	13
Learning with student climate strikers’ humour: towards critical affective climate justice literacies	13
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning	13
Participation and why it matters: children’s perspectives and expressions of ownership, motivation, collective efficacy and self-efficacy and locus of control	13
Development and validation of an instrument for measuring action competence in sustainable development within early adolescents: the action competence in sustainable development questionnaire (ACiSD-Q	13
Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education	12
Contribution of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project to the development of students’ environmental literacy	12
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	12
Climate change in public health and medical curricula in Australia and New Zealand: a mixed methods study of educator perceptions of barriers and areas for further action	12
Encounters with climate change and its psychosocial aspects through performance making among young people	12
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	11
Pre-school teaching for creative processes in education for sustainable development – invisible animal traces, purple hands, and an elk container	11
A theoretical framework to address education for sustainability for an earlier transition to a just, low carbon and circular economy	11
Middle school science teachers’ agency to implement place-based education curricula about local wildlife	11
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize	11
Environmental concern among Chinese youth: the roles of knowledge and cultural bias	11
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation	11
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children	11
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	11
Connectedness is in my character: the relationship between nature relatedness and character strengths	10
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions	10
Weather bodies: experimenting with dance improvisation in environmental education in the early years	10
Recontextualising Education for Sustainable Development in pedagogic practice in Vietnam: linking Bernsteinian and constructivist perspectives	10
The effect of information source on higher education students’ sustainability knowledge	10
Which approaches are associated with better outcomes? Evidence from a national study of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent youth in the United States	10
Climate fiction and young learners’ thoughts—a dialogue between literature and education	9
From concern to behavior: barriers and enablers of adolescents’ pro-environmental behavior in a school context	9
Pandemic shift: Meeting the challenges of moving post-secondary environmental education online	9
The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education	9
The effects of educator’s level of environmental literacy on their issue identification practices	9

Environmental education and socio-ecological resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from educational action research	9
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	9
The perceived effect of environmental and sustainability education on environmental literacy of Czech teenagers	9
Environmental education leadership – the perceptions of elementary school principals as expressed in their drawings and explanations	9
Sustainability in out-of-school science education: identifying the unique potentials	9
Bureaucratic exercise? Education for sustainable development in Taiwan through the stories of policy implementers	9
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire	8
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	8
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?	8
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development	8
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	8
Seeing climate change: psychological distance and connection to nature	8
National policy guidelines and early childhood sustainability education: an analysis of match and gaps in preschool curricula plans	8
Citizenship education for environmental sustainability in Lebanon: public school teachers’ understandings and approaches	8
Sustainability and the 2030 Agenda within schools: A study of school principals’ engagement and perceptions	8
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships: Reflections and analysis from New York City	8
Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures	8
Adaptive doctors in Australia: preparing tomorrow’s doctors for practice in a world destabilised by declining planetary health	8
Measuring professional action competence in education for sustainable development (PACesd)	8
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	8
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	8
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	7
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	7
Exploring the role of learning in sustainability transitions: a case study using a novel analytical approach	7
Secondary school students’ familiarity with animals and plants: hometown size matters	7
Fostering students’ systems thinking competence for sustainability by using multiple real-world learning approaches	7
A didactic toolkit for climate change educators: lessons from constructive journalism for emotionally sensitive and democratic content design	7
Narratives and impacts of formal climate education experienced by young climate activists	7
A systematic mixed studies review of civic engagement outcomes in environmental education	7
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics	7
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	7
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students	7
Sustainability competences in primary school education – a systematic literature review	7
A portrait of environmental integration in United States K-12 art education	7
Future teachers facing the problem of climate change: meat consumption, perceived responsibility, and willingness to act	6
25 years on: looking back at environmental education research	6
Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education	6
Agricultural and environmental education: a call for meaningful collaboration in a U.S. context	6
Extending the concept of pro-environmental action and behaviour: a binary perspective	6
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	6
What effective design strategies do rural, underserved students in STEM clubs value while learning about climate change?	6
Limits of caring: pre-service teachers’ reasons for not taking high-impact actions to mitigate climate change	6
Perspectives of youths on cultural ecosystem services provided by Tun Mustapha Park, Malaysia through a participatory approach	6
Let’s read green! A comparison between approaches in different disciplines to enhance preservice teachers’ environmental attitudes	6
Identifying factors influencing attitudes towards species conservation – a transnational study in the context of zoos	6
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature	6
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas	6
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts	6
Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students	6
An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers	6
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations: building on Bandura’s theory of human agency	6
Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study	6
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	6
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	5
Getting “really close”: relational processes between youth, educators, and more-than-human beings as a unit of analysis	5
Gender equality and climate justice programming for youth in low- and middle-income countries: an analysis of gaps and opportunities	5
Sustainability education research and policy in Cyprus: an investigation into their roles and relationships	5
Data triangulation confirms learning in the zoo environment	5
Exploring pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy, content knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge concerning education for sustainable development	5
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education	5
Using Lucie Sauvé’s environmental education typology: a systematic synthesis of citations	5
Examining undergraduate students’ systems thinking competency through a problem scenario in the context of climate change education	5
Assessment of cross-cutting competences in education for sustainable development	5
“The tree was there first” – using an everyday ecological dilemma to explore the personal orientations of secondary school students in environmental decision-making	5
Growing garden-based learning: mapping practical and theoretical work through design	5
Through their lenses: Arab students' environmental documentation and action	5
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings	5
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning	5
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	5
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL	5
Facilitating democratic processes for sustainability: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	4
Meaning-making in higher education for sustainable development: undergraduates’ long-term processes of experiencing and learning	4
Developing ESD-specific professional action competence for teachers: knowledge, skills, and attitudes in implementing ESD at the school level	4
Environmental and sustainability education: A critical analysis of evaluation instruments through a research–practice partnership	4
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education	4
Decoding gender in nature-based education: perceptions of environmental educators	4
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation	4
Which “sustainable university” are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature	4
A teaching strategy based on active learning which promotes strong sustainability that empowers students to have a different type of relationship with the environment	4

Envisioning low-carbon futures: possibility and hope as part of climate change teacher education	4
Do students have anything to say? Student participation in a whole school approach to sustainability	4
The teacher’s role for engagement in foraging and gardening activities in kindergarten	4
Forest education as contribution to education for environmental citizenship and non-anthropocentric perspectives	4
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	4
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]	4
Environmental education in teaching science on the Wadden Sea ecosystem: What are the effects on environmental psychological constructs?	4
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	4
Local and global (f)actors in environmental and sustainability education policies: the case of New York City public schools	4
Argumentation-supported educational comics as a teaching tool for environmental education	4
Analysing the construction of ‘sustainability’ in lower secondary school technology syllabi in Ireland	4
Ecologising education beyond angels and villains	4
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	4
Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition	4
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health	4
Flowing magma bodies: towards a relational understanding of imaginative pedagogical possibilities	4
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	4
Using social network analysis to explore and expand our understanding of a robust environmental learning landscape	4
Listening toHeartbeat: the pulse of ecofeminism in a picturebook	4
Nature-based reading and writing instructions in early childhood education:The Giving Treeexample	4
Development and formation of ESE policy: learning from teachers and local authorities	4
“It was funny at first” exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students	4
School students’ attitudes towards unloved biodiversity: insights from a citizen science project about urban rats	3
Contextualising capabilities for public safety in undergraduate sustainability engineering education	3
Reconfiguring environmental sustainability in early childhood education: a post-anthropocentric approach	3
What people learn from death: exploring citizen scientists’ learning outcomes in Taiwan Roadkill Observation Network from an environmental education perspective	3
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	3
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties	3
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France	3
When students write comedy scripts: humor as an experiential learning method in environmental education	3
Teachers’ barriers dealing with environmental education programs’ implementation in Greek secondary schools	3
Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape	3
School staff perceptions on education for sustainability and sense of community as reflected in an elementary school culture in Israel	3
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	3
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments	3
Exploring the value of a BioBlitz as a biodiversity education tool in a post-secondary environment	3
Institutionalising interdisciplinarity in PhD training: challenging and redefining expertise in problem-oriented research	3
Building capacity for socio-ecological change through the campus farm: a mixed-methods study	3
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	3
Politicizing the learning of Sustainable Development Goals through drama performances and agonistic debates: a teacher training experience from the perspective of radical democracy	3
Is climate change a laughing matter?	3
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment	3
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	3
Environmental educational programs in Chile: Do the characteristics of local governments affect school participation?	3
Feeling and Hearing Country as Research Method	3
Pre-schoolers as systems thinkers: testing the water	3
Promoting an environmental education project: the eco-picture diary in Yokohama City, Japan	3
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	3
Chemistry teachers’ perspectives and understanding in integrating sustainability into teaching: the case of Chile	3
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities	3
Environmental discourse in Brazilian English-as-a-foreign-language textbooks: socio-discursive practices and their implications for developing students’ critical environmental literacy	3
Educators’ intentions for learning in Virtual School Garden Exchanges: a comparison with the aims of Education for Sustainable Development	3
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	3
Protect + prevent = preserve? Exploring students’ arguments for and attitudes toward conservation	3
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–2020	3
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education	3
Longitudinal analysis of the environmental literacy of undergraduate students in Eastern Taiwan	2
ESD in school: Understanding French-speaking Swiss pupils’ representations of sustainability	2
Governmentalities of climate change education in England: Perspectives from history, policy and position-holders	2
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	2
Predicting engineering students’ desire to address climate change in their careers: an exploratory study using responses from a U.S. National survey	2
The ABC connectedness to nature scale: development and validation of a scale with an approach to affective, behavioural, and cognitive aspects	2
Utopia in environmental and sustainability education: imagination, transformation, and transgression	2
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea	2
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	2
Reconfiguring the everyday: plastic waste as performance art in addressing the incongruity between the ‘talk’ and the ‘walk’ in the plastic crisis	2
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	2
Walking practices with/in nature(s) as ecopedagogy in outdoor environmental education: An autophenomenographic study	2
Teaching outside as third space: toward school science that acknowledges student ecological expertise	2
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–2015	2
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	2
Early childhood educators’ conceptions of the environment: a ‘funds of knowledge’ approach	2
Transformative learning in graduate global change education drives conceptual shift in invasive species co-management and collaboration	2
Underwater virtual reality for marine education and ocean literacy: technological and psychological potentials	2
What children know and want to know about climate change: a prior-knowledge self-assessment	2
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education	2
Paradigm shift: changes in willingness to take pro-environmental behavior in the midst of the COVID pandemic among European pre-service teachers	2
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey	2
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability	2
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)	2
Unraveling the holistic nature of ecosystems: biology teachers’ conceptions of methodological choices regarding the study of ecosystems	2
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials	2
Coming to our senses: Zen and the art of ecoactivism	2
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	2
Extinction, education and the curious practice of visiting thrombolites	2
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching	2
Exploring children’s perception of environmental change in the Mexican mediterranean	2
Determinants of the implementation of participatory actions in environmental education with children and adolescents in Chile	2
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	2
How is biodiversity understood in compulsory education textbooks? A lexicographic analysis of teaching programs in the French-speaking part of Switzerland	2
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research	2
‘The existential tendency’ in climate change education: an empirically informed typology	2
Biodiversity researchers as a model for school students: An innovative approach to foster meaningful understanding?	2
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia	2
How is cognitive reappraisal related to adolescents’ willingness to act on mitigating climate change? The mediating role of climate change risk perception and believed usefulness of actions	2