OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Education Research is 6. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

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 for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action	32
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
Towards climate justice education: views from activists and educators in Scotland	31
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change	30
Exploring the relationships between risk perception, behavioural willingness, and constructive hope in pro-environmental behaviour	30
Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales	29
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	27
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development	27
The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation	26
Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school	26
Education for sustainability in early childhood education: a systematic review	25
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
Place-responsive Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: attuning with the more-than-human	23
The political dimension in environmental education curricula: Towards an integrative conceptual and analytical framework	21
Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience	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
Why is it important to protect the environment? Reasons presented by young children	19
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research	19
Justice in climate change education: a systematic review	18
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability	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
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
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
Integration of indigenous and local knowledge into sustainability education: a systematic literature review	15
‘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
New materialisms and environmental education: editorial	14
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships: Reflections and analysis from New York City	8
National policy guidelines and early childhood sustainability education: an analysis of match and gaps in preschool curricula plans	8
Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures	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
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	8
Adaptive doctors in Australia: preparing tomorrow’s doctors for practice in a world destabilised by declining planetary health	8
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire	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
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
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	8
Seeing climate change: psychological distance and connection to nature	8
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?	8
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
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
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
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