OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Education Research is 7. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension	94
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	76
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	54
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	53
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	50
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	50
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	49
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	47
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	44
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	44
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	43
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	39
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	35
Teacher orientations in climate change education	33
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	32
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	31
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-736	30
Correction	27
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	27
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	27
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	24
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	23
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	23
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	22
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	22

Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	22
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	21
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’^[1]	20
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	20
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	19
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	19
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	19
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	19
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	19
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	19
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	18
Climate change education through the You and CO ₂ programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	18
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	18
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	17
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	17
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	17
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	17
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–2015	16
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	16
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	16
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	16
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research	16
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	16
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	15
Correction	15
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	15
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?	15
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program	15
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	15
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	15
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	15
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature	15
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	14
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)	14
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	14
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	14
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia	13
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	13
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency	13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States	13
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	12
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	12
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	12
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	12
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments	12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	12
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	12
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	12
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	12
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research	12

Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks	12
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything	11
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)	11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	11
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	11
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	11
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	11
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	11
Referees for Environmental Education Research 2021	11
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	11
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	11
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	10
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment	10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	10
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	10
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	9
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	9
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	9
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors	9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	9
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative	9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	9
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education	9
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	9
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	9
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education	8
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan	8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	8
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	8
Is climate change a laughing matter?	8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption	8
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	8
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	8
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	8
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	7
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy	7
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	7
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health	7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	7
Putting plants in the picture	7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version	7
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology	7
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education	7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior	7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough	7
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 interest	7
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	7