OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Education Research is 7. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension	84
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	70
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	64
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	54
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	47
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	46
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	45
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	45
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	44
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	43
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	41
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	38
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	37
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	31
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	31
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	30
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	27
Correction	27
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’^[1]	26
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	25
Teacher orientations in climate change education	25
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	23
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	22
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	21
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	21

Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	20
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	20
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	20
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	20
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	19
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	19
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education	18
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	18
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	18
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	18
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	17
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	17
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	17
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children	17
Climate change education through the You and CO ₂ programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	16
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	16
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	16
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	15
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	15
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	15
A scale for assessing student understandings of marine resource conservation and sustainability: psychometric verification and the latent mean difference between genders	15
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	15
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	14
Placemaking: a new materialist theory of pedagogy	14
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	14
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	14
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	14
Nature, disappeared: anti-environmental values in Singapore’s history textbooks, 1984–2015	14
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	13
Correction	13
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature	13
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
Environmental education and eco-theology: insights from Franciscan schools in Indonesia	13
Walking practices with/in nature(s) as ecopedagogy in outdoor environmental education: An autophenomenographic study	12
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	12
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)	12
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	12
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	12
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States	12
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	12
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	11
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	11
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks	11
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything	11
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	11
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	11
The contribution of sustainability education pedagogies to the development of Greek preservice teachers’ sustainability consciousness about social issues in urban environments	11
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	11

Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program	11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	11
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	11
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research	11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	10
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	10
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	10
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	10
Referees for Environmental Education Research 2021	10
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)	10
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	10
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	9
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	9
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	9
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	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
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	9
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment	9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	8
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	8
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	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
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	8
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	8
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	8
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	8
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative	8
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	8
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	7
Putting plants in the picture	7
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	7
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	7
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	7
Is climate change a laughing matter?	7
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior	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
Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	7
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	7
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	7
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	7
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption	7
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	7