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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension100
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship78
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis60
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.58
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents56
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education55
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability51
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences48
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action46
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature46
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘45
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 202339
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context37
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States36
Teacher orientations in climate change education34
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-73633
Correction31
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea28
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium28
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program27
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education26
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world25
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?24
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program24
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?24
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education22
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England22
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education21
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues20
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice20
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium20
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]20
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism19
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test19
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea19
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives19
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training18
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-1918
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education18
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea17
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis17
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research17
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions17
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices17
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change17
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards17
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change17
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions17
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work16
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?16
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes16
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature15
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course15
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park15
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap15
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)14
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals14
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change14
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review13
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school-context13
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm13
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States13
Correction13
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program13
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency13
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia13
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks12
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement12
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research12
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science12
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education12
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom12
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)12
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything11
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
Referees for Environmental Education Research 202111
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept11
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions11
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education11
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes11
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature11
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future11
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs11
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)10
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis9
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment9
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks9
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project9
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior9
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors9
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action9
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education9
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 political9
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development9
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education9
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs8
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change8
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan8
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education8
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science8
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption8
Is climate change a laughing matter?8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum8
Putting plants in the picture7
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version7
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education7
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools7
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals7
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?7
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior7
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate6
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond6
Correction6
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education6
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of education for sustainable development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica6
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 interest6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool6
Moving ideas in environmental education6
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops6
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health6
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology6
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography6
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education6
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education6
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability6
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation6
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough6
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences6
Learning the dangers of storm surges in virtual reality: coastal leaders’ attitudes toward VR as a risk communication tool5
The unexplored relationships between forest schools and climate change: the parental perspective5
Journeys through forest school: a model for understanding diverse educational experiences of children5
Teachers’ views on ‘food’ animals for sustainability education: an exploratory study5
Teaching as a work of heart. Why teaching teachers to care is important in ESD work in Jamaica5
Integrating climate change education in higher education: insights from lecturers and students across disciplines in the Mekong Delta5
Teacher education for sustainable development: catalysing change across the professional landscapes in Europe5
Assessing an assets-based environmental fellowship through a community cultural wealth lens5
Rebuilding human-nature connections in children and adolescents: insights from a meta-analysis5
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials5
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects5
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?5
Preparing youth for global challenges: can an open classroom climate prepare students for climate action?5
Learning biodiversity care in everyday life: teacher education in contrasting biocultural contexts5
Availability and distribution of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent students in the U.S.: a national study of spatial accessibility5
What’s the matter in education for sustainable development? How sustainability stories make matter matter as issues or problems5
Assessing disaster risk exposure and capacity gaps for resilience and sustainability within UNESCO-designated heritage sites in Africa5
Teaching invasive species ethically: using comics to resist metaphors of moral wrongdoing & build literacy in environmental ethics5
Teaching controversial sustainability issues at the junior high-school level: an explorative study of teaching traditions and associations with ways of teaching5
Petting bees or building bee boxes? Strategies for transformative learning5
Report on the symposium “speculative realism in environmental education and the philosophy of education”5
Exploring sociocritical perspectives on renewable energy education in Alberta, Canada5
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation5
Environmental wicked problems in middle school - emotional work in the happenstance4
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school4
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition4
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning4
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey4
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain4
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education4
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students4
Creative, effective, transformative: creative learning and educator practice in education for sustainable development4
Humility imparts the wonders of nature: a virtue-ethical elaboration of some of Michael Bonnett’s thoughts4
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: a road map to a sustainable career and planet4
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas4
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire4
Remembering Peter Fensham, a founder of Australian environmental education4
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation4
From sociocultural concept to academic major: the role of institutional characteristics and disciplines in institutionalizing learning for sustainability in American higher education4
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education4
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature4
Pluralistic environmental and sustainability education – a scholarly review4
Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth4
FromThe Fresh PrincetoThe Politician: climate change frames in American scripted television comedy 1990–20204
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings4
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea4
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education4
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England4
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change4
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions4
Local awareness, extracurricular activities, and youth identity: centering students’ voices for Anthropocene pedagogy in Indonesia4
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior4
Exploring the shifts to existing schooling practices that students experience in open schooling practices4
The development of high leverage practices in environmental sustainability-focused service learning courses: applications for higher education4
Assessing barriers to participation in environmental education field trips in the Congaree Biosphere Reserve4
Teachers as promoters of transformative environmental education: perceptions and classroom practices4
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action3
Framing engagement and public participation in local climate conferences3
Energy literacy in elementary school textbooks in Mexico3
Practising immanence: Living with theory and environmental educationPractising immanence: Living with theory and environmental education, edited by David A. G. Clarke, London, Routledge, 2024, 249 pp.3
Learning and agency for sustainability transformations: building on Bandura’s theory of human agency3
Global climate education and its discontents: using drama to forge a new way, K. Gallagher and C. Balt, Routledge, London, 2024, 337 pp., ISBN 978-1-03-261563-93
Teaching outside as third space: toward school science that acknowledges student ecological expertise3
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties3
What happens if …? Uncertainty in games and climate change education3
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France3
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain3
Interdisciplinary nature journaling improves mood and helps build connection in middle school students3
The generativity of feminist and environmental cartoons for environmental education research and teaching3
Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes3
Let’s read green! A comparison between approaches in different disciplines to enhance preservice teachers’ environmental attitudes3
Chemistry teachers’ perspectives and understanding in integrating sustainability into teaching: the case of Chile3
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development3
What is community-level environmental literacy, and how can we measure it? A report of a convening to conceptualize and operationalize CLEL3
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize3
Exploring the role of biospheric/egoistic values, scientific engagement, and cross-cultural effects in high school students’ willingness to take climate action3
Bringing nature back to cities and children back to… nature? How environmental education in a renovated urban park reshapes children’s representations3
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed3
Social studies advocacy for environmental and sustainability education: a scholarly review and discussion within the US schooling contexts3
Transformative learning. Reflections on 30 years of head, heart and hands at Schumacher College3
Environmental education in Portuguese Speaking Nations: a survey of current practices and priorities3
Energy literacy: towards a conceptual framework for energy transition3
An innovative framework for teaching climate change: integrating emotion coping strategies and exploring a new climate emotion scale among Canadian youth3
ESD progress, problems and prospects in the English-speaking Caribbean: Some perspectives from the field3
German-language adaptation and validation of the self-perceived action competence for sustainability questionnaire (SPACS-Q)3
Helping young people cope with eco-anxiety: a qualitative intervention study3
Characteristics and motivations of environmental volunteers at episodic events3
‘The bud disappears when the blossom breaks through’: composing dialectical lectures as environmental education3
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students3
Learning to care in the food system: Education for Sustainable Development resources, food education and the farming of animals for food3
Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature3
Urban children and adolescents’ perspectives on the importance of nature3
Sustainability and sustainable development goals in business higher education research: a systematic literature review3
Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education2
Assessment and validation: an updated climate change Plausibility Perception Measure2
Broadening the scope of intergenerational learning in environmental education: an investigation of youth-to-educator intergenerational learning during a residential environmental education program2
Exploring young people’s perceived climate change competence2
Environmental educational programs in Chile: Do the characteristics of local governments affect school participation?2
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