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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change	59
Making education for sustainable development happen in elementary schools: the role of teachers	50
The effectiveness of education for sustainable development revisited – a longitudinal study on secondary students’ action competence for sustainability	48
Teachers’ perspectives on sustainable development: the implications for education for sustainable development	37
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum	36
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education	33
From childhood nature experiences to adult pro-environmental behaviors: An explanatory model of sustainable food consumption	33
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	32
Participatory research on using virtual reality to teach ocean acidification: a study in the marine education community	31
Climate change education and communication in global review: tracking progress through national submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat	30
Enhancing children’s literacy and ecological literacy through critical place-based pedagogy	29
Towards climate justice education: views from activists and educators in Scotland	28
Environmental perceptions and pro-environmental behavior – comparing different measuring approaches	28
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action	28
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change	27
Exploring the relationships between risk perception, behavioural willingness, and constructive hope in pro-environmental behaviour	27
Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales	27
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development	25
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	25
The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation	25
Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school	25
Education for sustainability in early childhood education: a systematic review	24
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	24
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students	22
Children in nature: exploring the relationship between childhood outdoor experience and environmental stewardship	20

Place-responsive Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: attuning with the more-than-human	20
Influence of educator’s emotional support behaviors on environmental education student outcomes	20
The political dimension in environmental education curricula: Towards an integrative conceptual and analytical framework	19
Learning to survive amidst nested crises: can the coronavirus pandemic help us change educational practices to prepare for the impending eco-crisis?	18
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research	18
Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience	18
Analysing the state of student participation in two Eco-Schools using Engeström’s Second Generation Activity Systems Model	17
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education	16
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	16
Textbooks and action competence for sustainable development: an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in geography and biology	16
Why is it important to protect the environment? Reasons presented by young children	16
Actions for sustainable development through young students’ eyes	15
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior	15
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability	15
Empowerment in outdoor environmental education: who shapes the programs?	15
Community climate resilience and environmental education: Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning	14
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education : some key themes	14
New materialisms and environmental education: editorial	14
Colombia’s national policy of environmental education: a critical discourse analysis	14
Classroom-based citizen science: impacts on students’ science identity, nature connectedness, and curricular knowledge	14
Integration of indigenous and local knowledge into sustainability education: a systematic literature review	13
Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education	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
Is climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees	13
‘We must urgently learn to live differently’: the biopolitics ofESD for 2030	13
A comparison of California and Texas secondary science teachers’ perceptions of climate change	12
Encounters with climate change and its psychosocial aspects through performance making among young people	12
It’s about time: perceived barriers to in-service teacher climate change professional development	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
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	12
Didactical dilemmas when planning teaching for sustainable development in preschool	12
Participation and why it matters: children’s perspectives and expressions of ownership, motivation, collective efficacy and self-efficacy and locus of control	11
Contribution of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project to the development of students’ environmental literacy	11
Justice in climate change education: a systematic review	11
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning	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
Scoping reviews: Their development and application in environmental and sustainability education research	11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	11
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize	11
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	11
Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education	10
Community-as-pedagogy: environmental leadership for youth in rural Costa Rica	10
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation	10
Connectedness is in my character: the relationship between nature relatedness and character strengths	10
Recontextualising Education for Sustainable Development in pedagogic practice in Vietnam: linking Bernsteinian and constructivist perspectives	10
Understanding the research-policy relationship in ESE: insights from the critical policy and evidence use literatures	10
The effect of information source on higher education students’ sustainability knowledge	10
Environmental concern among Chinese youth: the roles of knowledge and cultural bias	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

Middle school science teachers’ agency to implement place-based education curricula about local wildlife	10
Measuring professional action competence in education for sustainable development (PACesd)	10
Weather bodies: experimenting with dance improvisation in environmental education in the early years	9
Environmental education and socio-ecological resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from educational action research	9
Bureaucratic exercise? Education for sustainable development in Taiwan through the stories of policy implementers	9
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	9
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	9
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions	9
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children	9
The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education	9
Learning with student climate strikers’ humour: towards critical affective climate justice literacies	8
Dealing with global environmental change: the design and validation of the GEC attitude scale	8
Thinking through making: junk paddles, distant forests and pedagogical possibilities	8
Pandemic shift: Meeting the challenges of moving post-secondary environmental education online	8
Adaptive doctors in Australia: preparing tomorrow’s doctors for practice in a world destabilised by declining planetary health	8
Sustainability and the 2030 Agenda within schools: A study of school principals’ engagement and perceptions	8
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire	8
The perceived effect of environmental and sustainability education on environmental literacy of Czech teenagers	8
Sustainability in out-of-school science education: identifying the unique potentials	8
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	8
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships: Reflections and analysis from New York City	7
Exploring the role of learning in sustainability transitions: a case study using a novel analytical approach	7
The effects of educator’s level of environmental literacy on their issue identification practices	7
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	7
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	7
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students	7
Citizenship education for environmental sustainability in Lebanon: public school teachers’ understandings and approaches	7
Fostering students’ systems thinking competence for sustainability by using multiple real-world learning approaches	7
Climate fiction and young learners’ thoughts—a dialogue between literature and education	7
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	7
Modelling pre-service science teachers’ pro-environmental behaviours in relation to psychological and cognitive variables	7
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	7
Secondary school students’ familiarity with animals and plants: hometown size matters	7
Environment and sustainability education research as policy engagement: (re-) invigorating ‘politics as potentia’ in South Africa	7
Environmental education leadership – the perceptions of elementary school principals as expressed in their drawings and explanations	7
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts	6
Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education	6
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	6
What effective design strategies do rural, underserved students in STEM clubs value while learning about climate change?	6
Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures	6
Limits of caring: pre-service teachers’ reasons for not taking high-impact actions to mitigate climate change	6
Sustainability competences in primary school education – a systematic literature review	6
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	6
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development	6
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas	6
National policy guidelines and early childhood sustainability education: an analysis of match and gaps in preschool curricula plans	6
A systematic mixed studies review of civic engagement outcomes in environmental education	6
Extending the concept of pro-environmental action and behaviour: a binary perspective	6
Seeing climate change: psychological distance and connection to nature	6
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	6