Environmental Education 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension108
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action81
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences61
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘60
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature60
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.57
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents53
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis52
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship50
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education47
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability46
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions41
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education37
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England37
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?35
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?35
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program31
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea29
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice29
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education27
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’[1]27
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States26
Learning to live with climate change Learning to live with climate change. From anxiety to transformation, by Blanche Verlie, Routledge, 2022, 140 pp. ISBN 9781-0320-73626
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea26
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Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism23
Correction23
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium22
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program22
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education21
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context20
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test20
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world20
Teacher orientations in climate change education20
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium20
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues20
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research19
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives19
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change19
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training19
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions18
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards18
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change17
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices17
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions17
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis17
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea17
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work17
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-1917
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes17
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education17
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap16
Correction16
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
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)15
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park14
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education14
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature14
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course14
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm14
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States13
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review13
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals13
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school-context13
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency13
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program13
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars13
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research12
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
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom12
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement12
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything12
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science12
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks12
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education12
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)11
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity11
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Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course10
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs10
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors10
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education10
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 political10
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes10
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)10
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development10
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues10
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment9
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior9
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools9
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project9
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning9
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
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education9
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship9
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks9
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education9
Putting plants in the picture8
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools8
Is climate change a laughing matter?8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum8
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?8
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool8
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version7
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
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
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools7
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy7
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health7
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough7
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course7
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates7
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of education for sustainable development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica7
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
A transactional model of moral learning – how to challenge unsustainable denials6
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality6
Correction6
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography6
There’s nothing like the real thing: nature connection and emotion in outdoor and online songs for nature workshops6
Teaching controversial sustainability issues at the junior high-school level: an explorative study of teaching traditions and associations with ways of teaching6
The role of education in biodiversity conservation: Can knowledge and understanding alter locals’ views and attitudes towards ecosystem services?6
Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects6
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences6
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education6
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond6
Moving ideas in environmental education6
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability6
Shifting frames or participation? How young people’s understandings of sustainability interact with their agency6
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education6
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology6
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior6
Nature preschool offers school readiness skills comparable to those of a typical preschool6
Journeys through forest school: a model for understanding diverse educational experiences of children6
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