Environmental Education Research

Article	Citations
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	111
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2025	111
Climate emotion and place: a mixed methods study of secondary-school students and teachers in coastal Ecuador	94
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? – A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘	75
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	74
Integrating religious and environmental education in Indonesian eco-pesantren: does student religiosity enhance environmental awareness?	64
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	61
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	53
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	50
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	44
Pre-service teachers and climate change education: a belief-intention gap yet to be bridged	42
Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition	41
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	39
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	38
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium	37
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	37
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	36
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	36
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	33
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	30
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	30
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	29
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	29
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	28
Correction	27

Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	25
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	24
Teachers’ familiarity with and attitudes towards Education for Sustainable Development in Montenegrin elementary and secondary schools	24
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	23
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	23
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions	23
Manifestation of personal, human agency, and practical dimensions for sustainability amid the climate crisis: implications for restructuring climate change education and policy	23
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	22
Teacher orientations in climate change education	22
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	22
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	21
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	21
Building resilience and supporting emotional well-being in climate change education: a systematic review of school-based climate change literacy programmes for children	21
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research	20
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	19
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	19
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	19
A life history study of Mr. Kim: transformative learning and the making of an environmental educator in South Korea	19
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	19
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	18
Intergenerational climate conversations: a Foucauldian analysis on the potentials of reversing pedagogical relations among youth	18
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	17
Comparative assessment of the environmental education policies of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela	16
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	16
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	16
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	15
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	15
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	15
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	15
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	15
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	15
Correction	15
An ethical imperative for higher education: cultivating community partnerships in climate change teacher education	14
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?	14
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	14
The didactic work of calling the existential into existence in climate change education: an analytical approach	14
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	14
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education	14
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program	14
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	13
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school context	13
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	13
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	13
Pedagogical strategies and practices in environmental and sustainability education in vocational education and training: an integrative review (1999–2024)	13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States	13
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	13
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	12
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency	12
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)	12
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	12

The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	12
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)	12
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	11
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything	11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	11
Co-developing professional learning practices in support of a whole school approach to sustainability-oriented education	11
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks	11
Relationships between companies and schools within environmental education: a case study on water and sewage pedagogy	11
Teachers’ profiles for Education for Sustainable Development: implications for professional development	11
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research	11
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	10
Environmental education policies in Korea: the scopes and issues of institutionalization	10
Rethinking climate change education research: a systematic review of methodological approaches and gaps in perspective studies	10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	10
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	10
Resilience and adaptive capacity: rethinking educational structures in the age of climate crisis	10
Unpacking environmental misinformation: a critical analysis of PragerU videos	10
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	10
‘We will fix the environment’: a qualitative exploration of children’s knowledge and emotional responses to the environmental crisis	10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	10
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	10
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	10
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	10
Emerging themes in sustainability education in higher education institutions: a scoping review of reviews	10
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	9
Teacher agency for transformative climate change education: a systems analysis of determinants and deterrents	9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	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
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	9
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	9
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors	9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	9
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education	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
A systematic literature review on the integration of indigenous knowledge in environmental education	8
Correction	8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	8
Towards worldview literate climate change education: perspectives from European educators’ interviews	8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	8
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	8
Experimenting with dystopian scenarios and imagined futures as a critical and creative futures perspective in Environmental and Sustainability Education	8
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
Copernicus Earth Observation Programme for climate education: a novel approach to design-based outreach experiences for young learners	8
Correction	8
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	8
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption	8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	7
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects	7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	7
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	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
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates	7
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology	7
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	7
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools	7
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough	7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior	7
Bringing the sociology of sustainable consumption into conversation with Education for Sustainable Development	7
Weaving pedagogies for the development of sustainability mindset: a framework integrating critical, dark, and drama-based approaches	7
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of Education for Sustainable Development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica	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
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	7
Is climate change a laughing matter?	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
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version	7
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability	7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy	7

We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	7
Putting plants in the picture	7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	7
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality	6
Shifting frames or participation? How young people’s understandings of sustainability interact with their agency	6
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics	6
Journeys through forest school: a model for understanding diverse educational experiences of children	6
Student perspectives on quality education at their school: toward a valid and reliable questionnaire to monitor quality education for sustainability teaching	6
Art and science integration: a framework for assessing children’s visual art posters in environmental education	6
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”	6
Correction	6
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops	6
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials	6
Editorial: marine environmental education and digital technologies	6
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?	6
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica	6
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility	6
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective	6
Moving ideas in environmental education	6
Teaching controversial sustainability issues at the junior high-school level: an explorative study of teaching traditions and associations with ways of teaching	6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool	6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond	6
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education	6
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems	6
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa	6
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts	6
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth	5
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education	5
Climate change education in the Mauritian and Irish primary science curricula: a comparative study	5
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis	5
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta	5
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts	5
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students	5
Exploring the shifts to existing schooling practices that students experience in open schooling practices	5
The way of the researcher: integrating artistic self-expression as a reflexive partner in the study of sustainability education	5
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices	5
Creative, effective, transformative: creative learning and educator practice in education for sustainable development	5
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–2020	5
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada	5
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool	5
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?	5
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe	5
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet	5
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain	5
Countering erasures, attuning to silences, and broadening horizons: applauding and augmenting Annette Gough’s contributions to environmental education scholarship	5
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review	5
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens	5
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance	5
Students’ attitudes towards climate change and their science career aspirations as predictors of situational motivation and knowledge	5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study	5
Teachers’ perspectives about integrating environmental education in the English language curriculum in Seychelles, Mahé Island	5
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve	5
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings	5
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning	5
From sociocultural concept to academic major: the role of institutional characteristics and disciplines in institutionalizing learning for sustainability in American higher education	5
Teaching high school chemistry through education for sustainability: a collaborative case study from Chile	5
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts	4
Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food	4
Promoting awareness about marine biological invasions through educational games	4
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France	4
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature	4
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea	4
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature	4
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed	4
Towards place-responsive climate change education: Mongolian primary teachers’ pedagogical judgement across urban and rural contexts	4
Characteristics and motivations of environmental volunteers at episodic events	4
Global climate education and its discontents: using drama to forge a new way	4
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students	4
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review	4
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations	4
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain	4
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education	4
Local awareness, extracurricular activities, and youth identity: centering students’ voices for Anthropocene pedagogy in Indonesia	4
Climate emotions in early childhood: a conceptual framework for research, intervention, and policy action	4
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education	4
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education	4
Helping young people cope with eco-anxiety: a qualitative intervention study	4
Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes	4
Teaching outside as third space: toward school science that acknowledges student ecological expertise	4
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature	4
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize	4
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL	4
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education	4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey	4
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school	4
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas	4
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	4
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition	4
Ocean and marine literacy in formal education: systematic review informing engagements with UN Ocean Decade	4
‘The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through’: composing dialectical lectures as environmental education	4
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching	4
Paradigm shift: changes in willingness to take pro-environmental behavior in the midst of the COVID pandemic among European pre-service teachers	3
Education and Learning for Sustainable Futures	3
Enhancing preschoolers’ creativity through art-based environmental education for sustainability	3