OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Environmental Education Research is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	75
Toward a phenomenology of mythopoetic participation and the cultivation of environmental consciousness in education	59
Animal edutainment in a neoliberal era. Politics, pedagogy, and practice in the contemporary aquarium.	55
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	52
Do future teachers’ sustainability commitments really relate to action-oriented educational approaches?	52
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	45
Integration of the sustainable development Goals (SDGs) in architecture curriculum – quantifying the extent of SDG contributions	40
Challenges in modelling and measuring sustainability competencies crucial to successful sustainability transitions	40
Addressing ecoparalysis: a community-engaged unit enhances undergraduate student environmental value and problem-solving self-efficacy	40
‘Facting or Acting’ in sustainable development teaching? Science Studies teachers’ didactical choices in Swedish upper-secondary schools	39
Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape	39
Protect + prevent = preserve? Exploring students’ arguments for and attitudes toward conservation	39
Seeding sustainable futures: enhancing children’s knowledge of content and skills through early STEM education	39
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	32
A developmental and ecological investigation of preschool children’s environmental moral reasoning	30
The prospect of education for sustainable development ameliorating specific abiotic factors in the environment: A Finnish case study	29
Common and threatened animal identification and conservation preferences among 6 to 12 year-old students	28
Environmental education in teaching science on the Wadden Sea ecosystem: What are the effects on environmental psychological constructs?	25
Perceptions of a sustainable diet among young adults	25
Virtual reality facilitates pro-environmental behavioural intentions	23
Navigating controversy and neutrality: pre-service teachers’ beliefs on teaching climate change	23
Using Lucie Sauvé’s environmental education typology: a systematic synthesis of citations	20
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	20
Teachers’ barriers dealing with environmental education programs’ implementation in Greek secondary schools	20
The secret language of flowers: insights from an outdoor, arts-based intervention designed to connect primary school children to locally accessible nature	20

Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	20
Experts, insects and informality: three key features within a school-linked conservation initiative	19
Reflecting on climate change education (CCE) initiatives for mitigation and adaptation in South Africa	19
Diversity in views as a resource for learning? Student perspectives on the interconnectedness of sustainable development dimensions	19
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	19
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	19
Determinants of the implementation of participatory actions in environmental education with children and adolescents in Chile	18
Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain	17
Development and validation of the education for sustainable development school organisation questionnaire	17
Identifying capital for school improvement: recommendations for a whole school approach to ESD implementation	17
Energy literacy of high school students in Vietnam and determinants of their energy-saving behavior	17
The relationship between student participation and students’ self-perceived action competence for sustainability in a whole school approach	16
What children know and want to know about climate change: a prior-knowledge self-assessment	16
Fostering positive engagement: climate change and environmental activism in the sixth-grade classroom	16
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2024	16
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension	15
Examining youth participation in ongoing community and citizen science programs in 3 different out-of-school settings	15
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	14
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	14
Young people, climate change and fast fashion futures	14
Beyond an anthropocentric view of praxis: towards education for planetary well-being	14
Outdoor education in Canadian public schools: Connecting children and youth to people, place, and environment	13
Seeing climate change: psychological distance and connection to nature	13
How is biodiversity understood in compulsory education textbooks? A lexicographic analysis of teaching programs in the French-speaking part of Switzerland	13
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	13
Relationships between high school students’ learning interest, learning motivation, and ocean literacy: a longitudinal study	12
When students write comedy scripts: humor as an experiential learning method in environmental education	12
Emergent forms of ‘Dark Green Religion’ and the (ecofascist) future of environmental education in the United States	12
In pursuit of a sustainable future for Jamaica: values, critical consciousness, and the pre-service teacher	12
Correction	12
Creativity, curiosity and catharsis: positive emotions in climate change education through picturebooks	12
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	12
The ABC connectedness to nature scale: development and validation of a scale with an approach to affective, behavioural, and cognitive aspects	12
A multi-stakeholder perspective on the development of key competencies for sustainability in Education for Sustainable Development at school	12
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	12
Underwater virtual reality for marine education and ocean literacy: technological and psychological potentials	11
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	11
Cooking a pro-vegn social identity: the influence of vegan cooking workshops on children’s pro-vegn social identities, attitudes, and dietary intentions	11
Utopia in environmental and sustainability education: imagination, transformation, and transgression	11
Gaia-Pachamama: an educational theater performance to foster environmental consciousness	11
An exploration of parents’ engagement with learning about climate change through science education: learnings for future practice	11
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	11
How educational staff in European schools reform school food systems through ‘everyday practices’	11
What effective design strategies do rural, underserved students in STEM clubs value while learning about climate change?	10
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	10
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	10
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	10
A theoretical framework to address education for sustainability for an earlier transition to a just, low carbon and circular economy	10
Developing youth toward pluralistic environmental citizenship: a Taiwanese place-based curriculum case study	10
Effective environmental education for sustainable development beyond the Plastic Age in South Korea	10

Using social network analysis to explore and expand our understanding of a robust environmental learning landscape	10
Getting “really close”: relational processes between youth, educators, and more-than-human beings as a unit of analysis	10
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	9
Learning collective care to support young climate justice advocates	9
Conceptualizing community-level environmental literacy using the Delphi method	9
Climate change discourse in U.S. history textbooks from California and Texas	9
Towards a fit-for-purpose climate change education: a systematic literature review identifying core principles and potential barriers	9
Environmental learning in everyday life: foundations of meaning and a context for change	9
The burden of bad news: educators’ experiences of navigating climate change education	9
‘Human-nature relations like a boomerang’: a case study on children’s visions of nature	9
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	8
Teachers’ perspectives on sustainable development: the implications for education for sustainable development	8
Framing effect of environmental cost information on environmental awareness among high school students	8
Towards a transformative climate change education: questions and pedagogies	8
Transformative learning in graduate global change education drives conceptual shift in invasive species co-management and collaboration	8
Transforming education in an era of climate change: from economic growth to degrowth discourses and cases of eco-logical practices in education	8
Exploring the links between teaching approaches and student outcomes at a residential setting	8
Empowering political engagement with unsustainable actions: the possibilities and limitations of teaching guides for climate change education	8
Predicting engineering students’ desire to address climate change in their careers: an exploratory study using responses from a U.S. National survey	8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	8
Environmental consciousness, nature, and the philosophy of education: some key themes	8
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	8
Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey	8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	8
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	8
Transformative learning. Reflections on 30 years of head, heart and hands at Schumacher College	8
The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France	7
Student teachers’ conceptual understanding of biodiversity loss in a multiple-source learning environment	7
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	7
Educators’ intentions for learning in Virtual School Garden Exchanges: a comparison with the aims of Education for Sustainable Development	7
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	7
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	7
Integrating character education and the values aspect of environmental and sustainability education: an interdisciplinary study exploring common ground, tensions, and feasibility	7
Development of the biotic impacts of climate change core concepts (BIC⁴) framework	7
Eduquer à l’environnement par l’approche sensible. Art, ethnologie et écologie	7
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	7
The science behind composting: How household biowaste management practices shape young children’s understanding of organic matter decomposition	7
Remembering Peter Fensham, a founder of Australian environmental education	7
From external to internal locus of control – identifying attitudes among adults and teens to foster environmental responsibility towards the trash in the public domain	6
A didactic toolkit for climate change educators: lessons from constructive journalism for emotionally sensitive and democratic content design	6
Conceptualising transformative language teaching for sustainability and why it is needed	6
Nature-based instruction for science learning: insights and interpretive considerations for research and practice	6
Using a stakeholder engagement approach to inform professional development programs to promote education for sustainability in schools	6
Posthuman pedagogy: experiential education for an era of mutualism	6
Research approaches in ESD/ESE: reflections of Swiss researchers	6
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	6
Environmental and sustainability education: A critical analysis of evaluation instruments through a research–practice partnership	6
Environmental discourse in Brazilian English-as-a-foreign-language textbooks: socio-discursive practices and their implications for developing students’ critical environmental literacy	6
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	6
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	6
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	6
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	6
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	6
Teaching environmental sustainability in China: opportunities and challenges for business and economics faculty in higher education	5
Putting plants in the picture	5
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	5
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	5
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	5
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	5
Climate change education and communication in global review: tracking progress through national submissions to the UNFCCC Secretariat	5
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	5
Fostering environmental personal norms: the role of environmental education in Nigerian pre-service teachers’ environmental knowledge, pro-environmental beliefs and behaviours	5
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	5
Exploring children’s perception of environmental change in the Mexican mediterranean	5
Exploring pre-service teachers’ self-efficacy, content knowledge, and pedagogical knowledge concerning education for sustainable development	5