Environmental Education Research

Article	Citations
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2025	119
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	98
Climate emotion and place: a mixed methods study of secondary-school students and teachers in coastal Ecuador	77
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? – A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘	76
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	70
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	55
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	50
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	50
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	49
Pre-service teachers and climate change education: a belief-intention gap yet to be bridged	47
Youth storytelling in climate change education: a systematic review of research designs, pedagogical scaffolding, and digital tools (2014–2024)	42
Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition	42
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	40
Integrating religious and environmental education in Indonesian eco-pesantren: does student religiosity enhance environmental awareness?	40
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	40
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium	39
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	38
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	32
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	31
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	30
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	30
Teacher orientations in climate change education	29
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	28
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	26
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	25

Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	25
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	24
Manifestation of personal, human agency, and practical dimensions for sustainability amid the climate crisis: implications for restructuring climate change education and policy	24
Building resilience and supporting emotional well-being in climate change education: a systematic review of school-based climate change literacy programmes for children	24
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	24
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	23
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	23
Correction	23
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions	23
Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	22
Environmental education in Korea: the roles and challenges of institutionalization	21
Teachers’ familiarity with and attitudes towards Education for Sustainable Development in Montenegrin elementary and secondary schools	21
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	20
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	20
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	20
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	20
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research	20
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	20
Comparative assessment of the environmental education policies of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela	19
Intergenerational climate conversations: a Foucauldian analysis on the potentials of reversing pedagogical relations among youth	19
Climate change education through the You and CO 2 programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	19
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	18
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	18
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	18
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	17
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	17
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	17
A life history study of Mr. Kim: transformative learning and the making of an environmental educator in South Korea	16
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	15
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	15
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	15
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	15
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education	14
Pedagogical strategies and practices in environmental and sustainability education in vocational education and training: an integrative review (1999–2024)	14
Correction	14
Student emotional response to the lesser kestrel environmental and sustainability education program	14
Integrating health and sustainability: food and nutrition programmes in the Dutch secondary school context	14
An ethical imperative for higher education: cultivating community partnerships in climate change teacher education	14
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	14
Conceptual links between environmental psychology and climate change education to encourage climate-friendly behavior of young people. Is there a role for self-regulation?	14
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	13
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	13
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States	13
The didactic work of calling the existential into existence in climate change education: an analytical approach	13
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency	13
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	13
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	13
Teachers’ profiles for Education for Sustainable Development: implications for professional development	12
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	12

Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks	12
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	12
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	12
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
Relationships between companies and schools within environmental education: a case study on water and sewage pedagogy	11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	11
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	11
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	11
Co-developing professional learning practices in support of a whole school approach to sustainability-oriented education	11
‘We will fix the environment’: a qualitative exploration of children’s knowledge and emotional responses to the environmental crisis	11
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	11
Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	11
Resilience and adaptive capacity: rethinking educational structures in the age of climate crisis	11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	10
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	10
Emerging themes in sustainability education in higher education institutions: a scoping review of reviews	10
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	10
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	10
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	10
Unpacking environmental misinformation: a critical analysis of PragerU videos	10
Environmental education policies in Korea: the scopes and issues of institutionalization	10
Rethinking climate change education research: a systematic review of methodological approaches and gaps in perspective studies	10
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	10
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	10
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	9
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	9
Teacher agency for transformative climate change education: a systems analysis of determinants and deterrents	9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	9
A systematic literature review on the integration of indigenous knowledge in environmental 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
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	9
Looking for the emotional footprint of climate change in young people: connections with education, information sources and climate action	9
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	9
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors	9
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education	9
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	9
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	9
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	8
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools	8
Correction	8
Transformative climate change education for graduate students: developing a theory of change to increase equity in climate change science	8
Is climate change a laughing matter?	8
Towards worldview literate climate change education: perspectives from European educators’ interviews	8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	8
‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education	8
Correction	8
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts education	8
Copernicus Earth Observation Programme for climate education: a novel approach to design-based outreach experiences for young learners	8
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan	8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	8
Putting plants in the picture	8
Experimenting with dystopian scenarios and imagined futures as a critical and creative futures perspective in Environmental and Sustainability Education	8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption	8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	8
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	8
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy	7
Editorial: marine environmental education and digital technologies	7
Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality	7
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 interest	7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough	7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	7
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	7
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	7
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology	7
Weaving pedagogies for the development of sustainability mindset: a framework integrating critical, dark, and drama-based approaches	7
Systems literacy: towards a conspectus and model for environmental and sustainability education	7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	7
The understanding and concerns of Nordic student teachers about climate change and their perspective on its teaching	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
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	7
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates	7
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	7
Bringing the sociology of sustainable consumption into conversation with Education for Sustainable Development	7
Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability	7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version	7
City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior	7

Education for sustainable development among rich and poor: didactical responses to biopolitical differentiation	7
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	7
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of Education for Sustainable Development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica	7
Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate	7