Environmental Education Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Education Research is 1. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education50
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability50
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.40
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students39
Protect + prevent = preserve? Exploring students’ arguments for and attitudes toward conservation37
The prospect of education for sustainable development ameliorating specific abiotic factors in the environment: A Finnish case study33
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment32
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students32
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship32
Growing garden-based learning: mapping practical and theoretical work through design30
Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape27
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior27
Navigating controversy and neutrality: pre-service teachers’ beliefs on teaching climate change27
Using social network analysis to explore and expand our understanding of a robust environmental learning landscape26
Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method26
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature25
Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study25
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education21
The relationship between student participation and students’ self-perceived action competence for sustainability in a whole school approach20
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 political20
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks19
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension18
How is biodiversity understood in compulsory education textbooks? A lexicographic analysis of teaching programs in the French-speaking part of Switzerland18
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development17
Teachers’ barriers dealing with environmental education programs’ implementation in Greek secondary schools17
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings16
Using Lucie Sauvé’s environmental education typology: a systematic synthesis of citations16
Perceptions of a sustainable diet among young adults16
Getting “really close”: relational processes between youth, educators, and more-than-human beings as a unit of analysis15
Addressing ecoparalysis: a community-engaged unit enhances undergraduate student environmental value and problem-solving self-efficacy15
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior15
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative15
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education14
Reflecting on climate change education (CCE) initiatives for mitigation and adaptation in South Africa14
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions14
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire13
Determinants of the implementation of participatory actions in environmental education with children and adolescents in Chile13
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action13
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea13
Listening toHeartbeat: the pulse of ecofeminism in a picturebook13
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action12
Challenges in modelling and measuring sustainability competencies crucial to successful sustainability transitions12
Learning collective care to support young climate justice advocates12
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain12
Integration of the sustainable development Goals (SDGs) in architecture curriculum – quantifying the extent of SDG contributions12
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation12
Seeing climate change: psychological distance and connection to nature11
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 202411
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning11
The ABC connectedness to nature scale: development and validation of a scale with an approach to affective, behavioural, and cognitive aspects11
Fostering positive engagement: climate change and environmental activism in the sixth-grade classroom11
Teachers’ perspectives on sustainable development: the implications for education for sustainable development11
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project11
Biodiversity researchers as a model for school students: An innovative approach to foster meaningful understanding?11
What children know and want to know about climate change: a prior-knowledge self-assessment11
In pursuit of a sustainable future for Jamaica: values, critical consciousness, and the pre-service teacher11
Relationships between high school students’ learning interest, learning motivation, and ocean literacy: a longitudinal study10
When students write comedy scripts: humor as an experiential learning method in environmental education10
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis10
Environmental education in teaching science on the Wadden Sea ecosystem: What are the effects on environmental psychological constructs?10
Beyond an anthropocentric view of praxis: towards education for planetary well-being10
Utopia in environmental and sustainability education: imagination, transformation, and transgression10
Virtual reality facilitates pro-environmental behavioural intentions9
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school9
Towards a fit-for-purpose climate change education: a systematic literature review identifying core principles and potential barriers9
A theoretical framework to address education for sustainability for an earlier transition to a just, low carbon and circular economy9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education9
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey9
What effective design strategies do rural, underserved students in STEM clubs value while learning about climate change?9
Creativity, curiosity and catharsis: positive emotions in climate change education through picturebooks9
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas8
How educational staff in European schools reform school food systems through ‘everyday practices’8
Correction8
Emergent forms of ‘Dark Green Religion’ and the (ecofascist) future of environmental education in the United States8
Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures8
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change8
Gaia-Pachamama: an educational theater performance to foster environmental consciousness8
Do future teachers’ sustainability commitments really relate to action-oriented educational approaches?8
Underwater virtual reality for marine education and ocean literacy: technological and psychological potentials8
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education8
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship8
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents8
Cooking a pro-veg*n social identity: the influence of vegan cooking workshops on children’s pro-veg*n social identities, attitudes, and dietary intentions8
An exploration of parents’ engagement with learning about climate change through science education: learnings for future practice8
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition7
Educators’ intentions for learning in Virtual School Garden Exchanges: a comparison with the aims of Education for Sustainable Development7
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science7
Development of the biotic impacts of climate change core concepts (BIC4) framework7
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-7367
Exploring the links between teaching approaches and student outcomes at a residential setting7
Nature-based instruction for science learning: insights and interpretive considerations for research and practice7
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool7
The foundations and applications of teaching environmental problems: paradigms, learning domains, worldviews, and how they interact7
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain7
Predicting engineering students’ desire to address climate change in their careers: an exploratory study using responses from a U.S. National survey7
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context6
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan6
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program6
Transformative learning in graduate global change education drives conceptual shift in invasive species co-management and collaboration6
Is climate change a laughing matter?6
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students6
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education6
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts6
Transformative learning. Reflections on 30 years of head, heart and hands at Schumacher College6
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs6
Exploring children’s perception of environmental change in the Mexican mediterranean6
Fostering environmental personal norms: the role of environmental education in Nigerian pre-service teachers’ environmental knowledge, pro-environmental beliefs and behaviours6
Which approaches are associated with better outcomes? Evidence from a national study of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent youth in the United States6
Integrating character education and the values aspect of environmental and sustainability education: an interdisciplinary study exploring common ground, tensions, and feasibility6
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]6
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States5
Posthuman pedagogy: experiential education for an era of mutualism5
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values5
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 20235
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?5
Remembering Peter Fensham, a founder of Australian environmental education5
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?5
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education5
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships: Reflections and analysis from New York City5
The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education5
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea5
Putting plants in the picture5
Research approaches in ESD/ESE: reflections of Swiss researchers5
Eduquer à l’environnement par l’approche sensible. Art, ethnologie et écologie5
Bureaucratic exercise? Education for sustainable development in Taiwan through the stories of policy implementers4
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education4
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France4
Exploring pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy, content knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge concerning education for sustainable development4
Narratives and impacts of formal climate education experienced by young climate activists4
Environmental education outcomes of community and citizen science: a systematic review of empirical research4
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium4
A didactic toolkit for climate change educators: lessons from constructive journalism for emotionally sensitive and democratic content design4
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes4
Justice in climate change education: a systematic review4
Climate change education and communication in global review: tracking progress through national submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat4
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature4
“We never even touched plants this way”: school gardens as an embodied context for motivating environmental actions4
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education4
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools4
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world4
Teacher orientations in climate change education4
Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school4
Flowing magma bodies: towards a relational understanding of imaginative pedagogical possibilities4
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program4
Conceptualisations of ‘critical thinking’ in environmental and sustainability education4
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea4
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England4
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum4
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education4
Using a stakeholder engagement approach to inform professional development programs to promote education for sustainability in schools4
Fitting the outreach in: school strategies for integrating student-led, community-based projects4
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL4
Environmental discourse in Brazilian English-as-a-foreign-language textbooks: socio-discursive practices and their implications for developing students’ critical environmental literacy4
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed3
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development3
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature3
Towards a transformative climate change education: questions and pedagogies3
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature3
Environmental and sustainability education: A critical analysis of evaluation instruments through a research–practice partnership3
Governmentalities of climate change education in England: Perspectives from history, policy and position-holders3
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching3
Navigating environmental practices at home: middle-class parenting and the norm of ambiguity in South Korea3
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education3
How does action competence explain young people’s sustainability action?3
Pandemic shift: Meeting the challenges of moving post-secondary environmental education online3
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?3
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England3
What does nature mean to you? A photo analysis of urban middle school students’ perceptions of nature3
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism3
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health3
Early childhood educators’ conceptions of the environment: a ‘funds of knowledge’ approach3
Social learning as a response to disasters: a case study in the Brazilian Amazon3
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Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students3
Student teachers’ conceptual understanding of biodiversity loss in a multiple-source learning environment3
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues3
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students3
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change3
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education3
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training3
Environmental concern among Chinese youth: the roles of knowledge and cultural bias3
Politicizing the learning of Sustainable Development Goals through drama performances and agonistic debates: a teacher training experience from the perspective of radical democracy3
Integrating climate change across the disciplines: review of a faculty learning community and student climate literacy assessment model3
In my garden with Bruno Latour: learning for coming down to earth3
Decoding gender in nature-based education: perceptions of environmental educators3
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education3
Measurement invariance of the action competence in sustainable development questionnaire: can we compare between groups?2
Climate change education in semiarid and coastal regions of Mexico: towards an inclusive educational program2
Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes2
Sociocultural learning theories for social-ecological change2
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–20152
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis2
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-192
Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education2
Longitudinal analysis of the environmental literacy of undergraduate students in Eastern Taiwan2
Environmental education leadership – the perceptions of elementary school principals as expressed in their drawings and explanations2
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education2
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology2
Classroom-based citizen science: impacts on students’ science identity, nature connectedness, and curricular knowledge2
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research2
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties2
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 interest2
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards2
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices2
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals2
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version2
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives2
Characteristics and motivations of environmental volunteers at episodic events2
Coming to our senses: Zen and the art of ecoactivism2
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children2
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action2
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test2
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change2
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences2
Look to the ravens: reconceptualizing communities of practice into ecosystems of practice2
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation2
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate2
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds2
Recontextualising Education for Sustainable Development in pedagogic practice in Vietnam: linking Bernsteinian and constructivist perspectives2
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum2
Teaching outside as third space: toward school science that acknowledges student ecological expertise2
Pre-school teaching for creative processes in education for sustainable development – invisible animal traces, purple hands, and an elk container2
The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation2
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change2
Perceptions of the sustainable development goals: a Q-methodology study with Turkish preservice teachers2
Environmental education and socio-ecological resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from educational action research2
Exploring environmental sensitivity and significant life experiences in African American and Hispanic American college students: a mixed methods study2
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities2
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development2
Developing ESD-specific professional action competence for teachers: knowledge, skills, and attitudes in implementing ESD at the school level2
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior2
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions2
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations: building on Bandura’s theory of human agency2
ESD in school: Understanding French-speaking Swiss pupils’ representations of sustainability2
From concern to behavior: barriers and enablers of adolescents’ pro-environmental behavior in a school context2
Forest education as contribution to education for environmental citizenship and non-anthropocentric perspectives2
Environmental Education and the new curriculum for Wales: an evaluation of how a family of schools in a rural area used a Theory of Change approach2
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy2
Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition2
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education1
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States1
The effectiveness of education for sustainable development revisited – a longitudinal study on secondary students’ action competence for sustainability1
Facilitator organizations enhance learning and action through citizen science: a case study of Girl Scouts’ Think Like a Citizen Scientist journey on SciStarter1
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature1
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects1
Building capacity for socio-ecological change through the campus farm: a mixed-methods study1
Entangling with the landscape: a methodological walking art experiment1
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