OOIR: Observatory of International 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change	47
Making education for sustainable development happen in elementary schools: the role of teachers	43
Plant blindness: a faddish research interest or a substantive impediment to achieve sustainable development goals?	41
The effectiveness of education for sustainable development revisited – a longitudinal study on secondary students’ action competence for sustainability	41
When screens replace backyards: strategies to connect digital-media-oriented young people to nature	38
Escape rooms as tools for climate change education: an exploration of initiatives	35
Teaching contributions from secondary school subject areas to education for sustainable development – a comparative study of science, social science and language teachers	34
Teachers’ perspectives on sustainable development: the implications for education for sustainable development	34
From childhood nature experiences to adult pro-environmental behaviors: An explanatory model of sustainable food consumption	31
The views of teachers in England on an action-oriented climate change curriculum	30
Participatory research on using virtual reality to teach ocean acidification: a study in the marine education community	29
Climate change education and communication in global review: tracking progress through national submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat	26
Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales	25
Towards climate justice education: views from activists and educators in Scotland	25
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education	25
Enhancing children’s literacy and ecological literacy through critical place-based pedagogy	25
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change	25
Environmental perceptions and pro-environmental behavior – comparing different measuring approaches	24
Do pre-visit preparation and post-visit activities improve student outcomes on field trips?	24
Interdisciplinary primary school curriculum units for sustainable development	24
Youth voice on climate change: using factor analysis to understand the intersection of science, politics, and emotion	22
Climate change education for transformation: exploring the affective and attitudinal dimensions of children’s learning and action	21
Environmental education, age, race, and socioeconomic class: An exploration of differential impacts of field trips on adolescent youth in the United States	21
Teaching about sustainability through inquiry-based science in Irish primary classrooms: the impact of a professional development programme on teacher self-efficacy, competence and pedagogy	21
Environmental education policy of schools and socioeconomic background affect environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of secondary school students	21

The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	21
Sharing a place-based indigenous methodology and learnings	21
Teachers’ ESD self-efficacy and practices: a longitudinal study on the impact of teacher professional development	20
Growing up in a tourist destination: developing an environmental sensitivity	20
The cranky uncle game—combining humor and gamification to build student resilience against climate misinformation	20
Educating for hope and action competence: a study of secondary school students and teachers in England	19
Children in nature: exploring the relationship between childhood outdoor experience and environmental stewardship	18
Developing a relationship with nature and place: the potential role of forest school	18
Influence of educator’s emotional support behaviors on environmental education student outcomes	17
The political dimension in environmental education curricula: Towards an integrative conceptual and analytical framework	17
Exploring the relationships between risk perception, behavioural willingness, and constructive hope in pro-environmental behaviour	16
Why is it important to protect the environment? Reasons presented by young children	16
Place-responsive Pedagogies in the Anthropocene: attuning with the more-than-human	16
Education for sustainability in early childhood education: a systematic review	16
Textbooks and action competence for sustainable development: an analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in geography and biology	15
Long-term impacts of two secondary school environmental studies programs on environmental behaviour: the shadows of patriarchy and neoliberalism	15
The outcomes of nature-based learning for primary school aged children: a systematic review of quantitative research	15
Mindfulness in education for sustainable development to nurture socioemotional competencies: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Quantifying the long-term impact of zoological education: a study of learning in a zoo and an aquarium	15
A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education	14
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior	14
Learning to survive amidst nested crises: can the coronavirus pandemic help us change educational practices to prepare for the impending eco-crisis?	14
Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience	14
Empowerment in outdoor environmental education: who shapes the programs?	14
The influence of a teachers’ professional development programme on primary school pupils’ understanding of and attitudes towards sustainability	13
‘We must urgently learn to live differently’: the biopolitics ofESD for 2030	13
Colombia’s national policy of environmental education: a critical discourse analysis	13
Analysing the state of student participation in two Eco-Schools using Engeström’s Second Generation Activity Systems Model	13
The identity work of environmental education teachers in Israel	13
Actions for sustainable development through young students’ eyes	12
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education : some key themes	12
Tensions, knots, and lines of flight: themes and directions of travel for new materialisms and environmental education	12
A comparison of California and Texas secondary science teachers’ perceptions of climate change	11
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	11
Didactical dilemmas when planning teaching for sustainable development in preschool	11
‘I had no idea that greenwashing was even a thing’: identifying the cognitive mechanisms of exemplars in greenwashing literacy interventions	11
New materialisms and environmental education: editorial	11
Residential marine field-course impacts on ocean literacy	11
It’s about time: perceived barriers to in-service teacher climate change professional development	11
Climate change in public health and medical curricula in Australia and New Zealand: a mixed methods study of educator perceptions of barriers and areas for further action	11
Classroom-based citizen science: impacts on students’ science identity, nature connectedness, and curricular knowledge	11
Is climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees	11
Encounters with climate change and its psychosocial aspects through performance making among young people	10
“I have a little, little, little footprint on the world” and “I’m not political”: feelings of low self-efficacy and the effect of identity on environmental behaviour in educators	10
Participation and why it matters: children’s perspectives and expressions of ownership, motivation, collective efficacy and self-efficacy and locus of control	10
Development and validation of an instrument for measuring action competence in sustainable development within early adolescents: the action competence in sustainable development questionnaire (ACiSD-Q	10
Understanding the research-policy relationship in ESE: insights from the critical policy and evidence use literatures	10
Integration of indigenous and local knowledge into sustainability education: a systematic literature review	10
To shine or not to shine? – The relationship between environmental knowledge of preteens and their choice among plastic and non-plastic materials for a manual task	10
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	9

Measuring professional action competence in education for sustainable development (PACesd)	9
Contribution of an intergenerational sustainability leadership project to the development of students’ environmental literacy	9
Recontextualising Education for Sustainable Development in pedagogic practice in Vietnam: linking Bernsteinian and constructivist perspectives	9
Which approaches are associated with better outcomes? Evidence from a national study of environmental education field trip programs for adolescent youth in the United States	9
Prefiguring sustainable futures? Young people’s strategies to deal with conflicts about climate-friendly food choices and implications for transformative learning	9
Understanding policymakers’ perspectives on evidence use as a mechanism for improving research-policy relationships	9
Environmental concern among Chinese youth: the roles of knowledge and cultural bias	9
Community-as-pedagogy: environmental leadership for youth in rural Costa Rica	9
Scoping reviews: Their development and application in environmental and sustainability education research	9
Teachers’ uptake of problematic assumptions of climate change in the NGSS	9
Connectedness is in my character: the relationship between nature relatedness and character strengths	9
Bureaucratic exercise? Education for sustainable development in Taiwan through the stories of policy implementers	9
Middle school science teachers’ agency to implement place-based education curricula about local wildlife	8
The changing and complex entanglements of research and policy making in education: issues for environmental and sustainability education	8
Thinking through making: junk paddles, distant forests and pedagogical possibilities	8
Environmental and sustainability education in the Caribbean: Crucial issues, critical imperatives	8
Towards a critical pedagogy of place for environmental conservation	8
Environmental education and socio-ecological resilience in the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from educational action research	8
The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education	8
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions	8
Adaptive doctors in Australia: preparing tomorrow’s doctors for practice in a world destabilised by declining planetary health	8
The effect of information source on higher education students’ sustainability knowledge	8
Pre-school teaching for creative processes in education for sustainable development – invisible animal traces, purple hands, and an elk container	8
Learning with vital materialities: weather assemblage pedagogies in early childhood education	7
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	7
A theoretical framework to address education for sustainability for an earlier transition to a just, low carbon and circular economy	7
Learning with student climate strikers’ humour: towards critical affective climate justice literacies	7
Community climate resilience and environmental education: Opportunities and challenges for transformative learning	7
An application of the transtheoretical model to climate change prevention: Validation of the climate change stages of change questionnaire in middle school students and their schoolteachers	7
Environmental education leadership – the perceptions of elementary school principals as expressed in their drawings and explanations	7
Pandemic shift: Meeting the challenges of moving post-secondary environmental education online	7
Weather bodies: experimenting with dance improvisation in environmental education in the early years	7
Doing curious research to cultivate tentacular becomings	7
‘Learning for resilience’ as the climate changes: discussing flooding, adaptation and agency with children	7
Textbooks of doubt, tested: the effect of a denialist framing on adolescents’ certainty about climate change	7
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	7
Changing stigma on wild animals: a qualitative assessment of urban pupils’ pre- and post-lesson drawings	7
The political dimension of consuming animal products in education: An analysis of upper-secondary student responses when school lunch turns green and vegan	7
Using online tools in participatory research with adolescents to promote civic engagement and environmental mobilization: the WaterCircle (WC) project	6
Secondary school students’ familiarity with animals and plants: hometown size matters	6
Environment and sustainability education research as policy engagement: (re-) invigorating ‘politics as potentia’ in South Africa	6
Improving ESE policy through research-practice partnerships: Reflections and analysis from New York City	6
What effective design strategies do rural, underserved students in STEM clubs value while learning about climate change?	6
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	6
Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education	6
Stewardship and beyond? Young people’s lived experience of conservation activities in school grounds	6
Youth, place, and educator practices: designing program elements to support relational processes and naturalist identity development	6
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students	6
National policy guidelines and early childhood sustainability education: an analysis of match and gaps in preschool curricula plans	6
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	6
Dealing with global environmental change: the design and validation of the GEC attitude scale	6
An investigation of environmental awareness and practice among a sample of undergraduate students in Belize	6
Extending the concept of pro-environmental action and behaviour: a binary perspective	6
Exploring the role of learning in sustainability transitions: a case study using a novel analytical approach	6