OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Environmental Education is 2. 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
Engaging Inuit youth in environmental research: Braiding Western science and Indigenous knowledge through school workshops	46
A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray	26
Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying	26
Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene : diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa	23
Decolonizing place in early childhood education	23
Linking students’ interest in nature to their self-reported pro-environmental behavior and nature activities – A cross-sectional study in grade 5 to 9	21
Empowering communities: The transformative influence of School Agenda 21	20
Emerging themes of research into outdoor teaching in initial formal teacher training from early childhood to secondary education – A literature review	20
Influence of charismatic animals on youths’ environmental knowledge and connection to water through the application of virtual reality tours	18
Religion, narrative, and the environmental humanities: bridging the rhetoric gap	16
Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis	14
(Re)Storying Human/Earth Relationships in Environmental Education: Becoming (Partially) Posthumanist	14
Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice	13
Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world	13
Integration of interculturality in education for sustainable development	12
What can the Romans do for us? The role of classics in delivering learning for sustainability	11
Investigating the relationships among students basic psychological needs, engagement, and environmental literacy at a residential environmental education center	11
Forest schools in Turkey in times of COVID-19	11
Stockholm +50, Tbilisi +45, Rio +30: Research, praxis, and policy	10
Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning	10
An intersectional feminist food studies praxis: Activism and care in the COVID-19 context	10
Collaborative learning on energy justice: International youth perspectives on energy literacy and climate justice	10
WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy	10
Housing in the Capitalocene : Environmental education and sustainable living	10
The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene	9

Dependent origination: Resonances for the environment and sustainability education	8
Identifying areas and approaches for improving evaluation processes in environmental education in the United States of America	8
Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places	8
The transcendentalist roots of sustainability: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the precedent for the Sustainable Development Goals education	8
Idwi,Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology	8
Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education	8
The role of environmental ideologies in environmental education	8
A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions	8
Examining the influence of citizen science participation on individual volunteers in the global South: A case study of hydrologic monitors in Veracruz, Mexico	7
Long-term influences of participation in an earth education program in middle school	7
Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students	7
The dirtiness of clean: Unearthing settler logics that sustain spatial woundings in the Capitalocene	7
Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature	7
Tbilisi’s “Sounds Of Silence”—(In)action in the policy ≠ embodiments of environmental education	7
Teaching under an orange sky: Toward reimagining educational purpose on a damaged planet	6
Resilience, collaboration, and agency: Galapagos teachers confronting the disruption of COVID-19	6
Supporting local school reform toward education for sustainable development: The need for creating and continuously negotiating a shared vision and building trust	6
“Are these girl ladybugs or boy ladybugs?”: An exploratory study on gender in nature-based education	6
Education and the marine environmental issue: A historical review of research fields and the popularization on conservation and management of the sea and ocean in Brazil	5
Global politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, and other current issues of environmental justice	5
Pandemics, capitalism, and an ecosocialist pedagogy	5
Envisioning educational pathways for climate change competencies: Insights from a Delphi study	5
“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education	5
In Memoriam: Torvald Jacobsson	4
Assessment of sustainability competencies in primary education: A systematic review	4
Environmental Citizenship: Dutch students’ sustainability competences and avenues for science education	4
Family matters: intergenerational influences on children’s agricultural literacy	4
Action-oriented approaches to teaching environmental science in Bhutanese secondary schools: Stakeholder perceptions	4
A systematic literature review on the impact of XR on pro-environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors	4
Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education	3
The importance of (not just visual) interaction with nature: A study with the Girl Scouts	3
Teacher continuous professional development in climate change education: Analyzing teachers’ perspectives	3
The utility and limitations of the New Ecological Paradigm scale for children	3
Exploring environmental stewardship among youth from a high-biodiverse region in Colombia	3
Prompts for eco-social transformation: What environmental education can learn from transformative design	3
Time and sustainability: A missing link in formal education curricula	3
Tuscarora nation lands and the New York State Power authority: an environmental justice education approach to decolonizing curriculum	2
In Memoriam—Harold R. Hungerford	2
Moving toward interdisciplinary approaches in ecological education: Converging and diverging viewpoints of South Korean teachers	2
Far-right narratives of climate change acceptance and their role in addressing climate skepticism	2
First as waste, then as feral: The garbological imaginary of Korean stories for decolonizing a wasted world	2
Exploring youth eco-literacy through lived experiences. ‘When you purchase a pair of jeans, you bear the burden of child labor in South Asia’	2
A study on the perceptions of Turkish primary school students regarding the environment, climate change, and sustainability	2
The existential toolkit for climate justice educators: How to teach in a burning world	2
JEE stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine	2
Our SARS-CoV-2 teacher: Teachings of the pandemic about our relations with the more-than-human world	2
Making sense of social sustainability: How teacher candidates analyze local sustainability challenges	2
Crowded waters: A pedagogical review of recent environmental humanities introductory texts	2
Digital technologies and environmental education	2
Education to build agency in the Anthropocene	2