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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	78
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension	62
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	62
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	54
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	53
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	46
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	44
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	43
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	43
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	43
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	43
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	42
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	41
Predicting engineering students’ desire to address climate change in their careers: an exploratory study using responses from a U.S. National survey	35
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	30
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	30
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	29
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education	27
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	26
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	26
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	24
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	24
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	24
Correction	24
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

The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	22
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’^[1]	21
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	21
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	20
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	20
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	20
Teacher orientations in climate change education	20
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	20
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	19
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	19
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	19
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	18
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–2015	18
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	17
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research	17
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	17
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children	16
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	16
Climate change education through the You and CO ₂ programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	15
A scale for assessing student understandings of marine resource conservation and sustainability: psychometric verification and the latent mean difference between genders	15
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	15
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	15
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	15
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)	14
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	14
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	14
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	14
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature	14
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	14
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States	13
Placemaking: a new materialist theory of pedagogy	13
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	13
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia	13
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?	12
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	12
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	12
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	12
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	12
Walking practices with/in nature(s) as ecopedagogy in outdoor environmental education: An autophenomenographic study	12
Correction	12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	11
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything	11
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	11
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program	11
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments	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
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	11
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	11
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	11

Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	11
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	10
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	10
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	10
Referees for Environmental Education Research 2021	10
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	10
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	10
Navigating inclusion and legitimacy in campus-community environmental partnerships to advance urban social-ecological resilience	10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	10
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	10
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	10
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	10
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	10
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research	10
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	9
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	9
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	9
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	9
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	9
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative	9
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment	9
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	9
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	8
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	8
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	8
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	8
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	8
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	8
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	8
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	8
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	8
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	8
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	7
Educators’ intentions for learning in Virtual School Garden Exchanges: a comparison with the aims of Education for Sustainable Development	7
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	7
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	7
Putting plants in the picture	7
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	7
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	7
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	7
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	7
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	7
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	7
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan	7
Is climate change a laughing matter?	7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	7
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	7
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education	7
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development	7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	7
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health	6
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	6
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography	6
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology	6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond	6
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	6
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version	6
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	6
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	6
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	6
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects	6
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	6
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education	6
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior	6
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough	6
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	6
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	6
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy	6
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	6