Environmental Education Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Environmental Education Research 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension121
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents92
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability71
Climate emotion and place: a mixed methods study of secondary-school students and teachers in coastal Ecuador71
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship65
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘65
Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition58
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences54
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis51
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action45
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education43
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions40
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?37
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?33
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program31
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice29
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-73629
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]29
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea29
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 202328
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium27
Correction27
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education26
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium24
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world24
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context24
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England23
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues22
Teachers’ familiarity with and attitudes towards education for sustainable development in Montenegrin elementary and secondary schools22
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism22
Building resilience and supporting emotional well-being in climate change education: a systematic review of school-based climate change literacy programmes for children21
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education21
Teacher orientations in climate change education21
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education21
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test20
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program20
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives20
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea20
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training20
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea19
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change19
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions19
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education19
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards19
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis19
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change18
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices18
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research18
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-1918
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park17
Correction17
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature17
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions17
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education17
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change15
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course15
The didactic work of calling the existential into existence in climate change education: an analytical approach15
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency14
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars14
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program14
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm14
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school-context14
An ethical imperative for higher education: cultivating community partnerships in climate change teacher education13
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States13
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap13
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work13
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals13
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom13
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?13
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes13
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review13
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research13
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)13
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything12
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature12
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement12
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
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks12
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept12
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science11
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education11
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs11
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 political11
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future11
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course11
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education11
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education11
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity11
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania11
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)11
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes11
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education11
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach11
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship10
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions10
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks10
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development10
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior10
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning10
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues10
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action9
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education9
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education9
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool9
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors9
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools9
Putting plants in the picture9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment9
Experimenting with dystopian scenarios and imagined futures as a critical and creative futures perspective in ESE9
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan9
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students8
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption8
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools8
Is climate change a laughing matter?8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum8
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs8
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature8
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 science8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education8
Bringing the sociology of sustainable consumption into conversation with education for sustainable development7
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography7
Correction7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version7
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health7
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals7
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects7
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 interest7
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of education for sustainable development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools7
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate7
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior7
Shifting frames or participation? How young people’s understandings of sustainability interact with their agency7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy7
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates7
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences7
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond6
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education6
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics6
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?6
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool6
Moving ideas in environmental education6
Journeys through forest school: a model for understanding diverse educational experiences of children6
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality6
Teaching controversial sustainability issues at the junior high-school level: an explorative study of teaching traditions and associations with ways of teaching6
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops6
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”6
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials6
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool6
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education6
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective6
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis6
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe5
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education5
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada5
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts5
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning5
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet5
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation5
From sociocultural concept to academic major: the role of institutional characteristics and disciplines in institutionalizing learning for sustainability in American higher education5
Local awareness, extracurricular activities, and youth identity: centering students’ voices for Anthropocene pedagogy in Indonesia5
Climate change education in the Mauritian and Irish primary science curricula: a comparative study5
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta5
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–20205
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?5
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review5
Student perspectives on quality education at their school: toward a valid and reliable questionnaire to monitor quality education for sustainability teaching 5
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa5
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation5
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth5
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve5
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature5
Creative, effective, transformative: creative learning and educator practice in education for sustainable development5
Art and science integration: a framework for assessing children’s visual art posters in environmental education5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study5
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices5
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility5
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica5
Teaching high school chemistry through education for sustainability: a collaborative case study from Chile5
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts5
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain5
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea5
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance5
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems5
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens5
Exploring the shifts to existing schooling practices that students experience in open schooling practices4
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas4
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students4
‘The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through’: composing dialectical lectures as environmental education4
Global climate education and its discontents: using drama to forge a new way4
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching4
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties4
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review4
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education4
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts4
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations4
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school4
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings4
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey4
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain4
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities4
Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition4
Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes4
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education4
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL4
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition4
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature4
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire4
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students4
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning4
Countering erasures, attuning to silences, and broadening horizons: applauding and augmenting Annette Gough’s contributions to environmental education scholarship4
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students4
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England4
Education for sustainable development in mathematics classrooms4
Teaching outside as third space: toward school science that acknowledges student ecological expertise4
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature4
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education4
Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food4
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France4
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed4
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior4
Early childhood education for sustainable development in the Nordic national curricula: status and content3
The perceived effect of environmental and sustainability education on environmental literacy of Czech teenagers3
Climate change education in primary schools: using arts-based methods to access student voice and examine the English National Curriculum3
Paradigm shift: changes in willingness to take pro-environmental behavior in the midst of the COVID pandemic among European pre-service teachers3
“It was funny at first” exploring tensions in human-animal relations through internet memes with university students3
Teaching ocean literacy in science education: a systematic review3
Examining STEM pre-service teachers’ perceptions of climate change education: insights from Morocco3
Enhancing preschoolers’ creativity through art-based environmental education for sustainability3
An iterative adaptive developmental evaluation framework: case study of the TREE semester learning community3
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education3
The power of artistic practices in ESD3
Navigating eco-anxiety and eco-detachment: educators’ strategies for raising environmental awareness given students’ disconnection from nature3
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning3
Ecologising education beyond angels and villains3
Between evidence and delusion – a scoping review of cognitive biases in Environmental and Sustainability Education3
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