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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Facts and values in students’ reasoning about gene technology in the frame of risk – a thick comprehension	126
A place for a happy childhood: forest kindergarten from the perspective of Polish parents	96
Climate emotion and place: a mixed methods study of secondary-school students and teachers in coastal Ecuador	76
Unequal opportunities for citizenship in vocational and academic sustainability education? – A critical study of teaching approaches in Swedish upper secondary subject ‘	74
Other durations, other rhythms: walking-drawing-writing with Bergson’s concept of intuition	70
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2025	69
Humor and humility for inclusive nature education	60
Knowledge of global climate change among Czech students and its influence on their beliefs in the efficacy of mitigation action	55
Buds of collectivity: student collaborative and system-oriented action towards greater socioenvironmental sustainability	47
Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis	47
Integrating religious and environmental education in Indonesian eco-pesantren: does student religiosity enhance environmental awareness?	44
Exploring the implementation of challenge-based learning for sustainability education in Dutch secondary education: teachers’ experiences	39
21st-century stewardship: infusing environmental stewardship education with global citizenship	34
Conceptualising a justice approach to environmental education in the Global South: six pedagogical dimensions	33
How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?	32
Advancing environmental justice education: a critical review of research and practice	31
Prison-based environmental training programs: who is being transformed?	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
Soka education and the land ethic: educational leadership toward the ‘creative co-existence of nature and humanity’^[1]	30
The responsive yet fragile alliance: examining a school environmental education project in South Korea	30
Referees for Environmental Education Research, 2023	29
Correction	29
Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium	27
Vulnerable reading practices for ecosocial justice in environmental education	26
Apping lunch and earning keep: Eco-Schooling in an unequal world	25

Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context	25
Teachers’ familiarity with and attitudes towards education for sustainable development in Montenegrin elementary and secondary schools	25
Ecotherapy and out-of-classroom learning for vulnerable and disadvantaged young people: an evaluation of a project in England	24
Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education	23
Eve in the community Garden: Black ecofeminist pedagogies as intervention in Western Christian environmentalism	23
Teacher orientations in climate change education	23
Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea	21
Building resilience and supporting emotional well-being in climate change education: a systematic review of school-based climate change literacy programmes for children	21
Teaching action-oriented knowledge on sustainability issues	21
Investigating the influence of preparation and perceived adult support on student attendance to a residential environmental education program	20
Using school-based assessments to advance the integration of sustainable development competences by capitalising on the practice of teaching to the test	20
Thinking with fire, water and sun – material-discursive entanglements in Swedish outdoor education	20
Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis	20
Diving into a sea of knowledge: empowering teachers to enhance ocean literacy in primary schools through an ocean education training program	20
K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives	20
The limits to sustainability: views and tensions expressed by future leaders for change	20
Integrating sustainability in economics education: understanding moments of transformative learning in secondary schools in Belgium	20
A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training	20
Students’ ideas of contributing to sustainable development: a study of how ideas emerge, travel and expand through classroom microblogging and discussions	20
Teachers’ profiles in education for sustainable development: interests, instructional beliefs, and instructional practices	19
From marginalised voices to intersectionality: the persistent problem of sexism and other oppressions in environmental education research	19
Dynamics of school environmental education policy through systems thinking: a case study of carbon-neutral model schools in Korea	19
How geography and politics shape teachers’ engagement with climate change science standards	18
A life history study of Mr. Kim: transformative learning and the making of an environmental educator in South Korea	18
Knowledge and self-efficacy of youth to take action on climate change	17
Correction	17
Environmental and outdoor education in preschool through family camping: the example of Czech Woodcraft in parents’ opinions	17
Climate change education through the You and CO ₂ programme: modelling student engagement and teacher delivery during COVID-19	17
Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course	15
Uncovering environmental and sustainability education themes in Caribbean secondary education certificate (CSEC) English literature	15
The didactic work of calling the existential into existence in climate change education: an analytical approach	14
Inviting the petrochemical industry to the STEM classroom: messages about industry–society–environment in webinars	14
Rationality environmentalised (with and beyond Michael Bonnett)	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
Outdoor environmental education: turning back to the environment at a time of climate and nature emergency	14
Bridging generations: how primary school students and primary school prospective teachers view animals	14
Ecologizing education: nature-centered teaching for cultural change	14
Whose subject is it anyway? Negotiating disciplinary tensions in designing open-ended ecological pedagogies through an urban terrace farm	14
Climate change summit: testing the impact of role playing games on crossing the knowledge to action gap	14
African ecofeminist popular education in relation to Annette Gough’s body of work	14
The implementation of the SDGs in universities: a systematic review	13
Multi-layered predictors of ESE policy adoption in large school districts in the United States	13
School track and adolescents’ climate change attitudes	13
Building bridges across species: empathy, prosociality, and ecosocial education	13
An ethical imperative for higher education: cultivating community partnerships in climate change teacher education	13
“A good hell”: absurdist insights for environmental education & research	13
Into the park: exploring preschool children’s experience in a local urban park	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
Irony and environmental education: on the ultimate question of environmental education, the universe and everything	12

Using drawings and explanations based on attentive teaching as a means for understanding the social-ecological systems concept	12
Diversifying tree-child relations: making the case for epistemological and methodological shifts in environmental education research	12
Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks	12
Willingness to mitigate climate change: the role of knowledge, trust, and engagement	12
The Field Guide audio series: mobile learning using place-based and inquiry-led approaches to promote adolescents’ interest in nature	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)	12
Developing more-than-human sustain-abilities in the ecocritical classroom	12
Education in international climate pledges – identifying education framings in countries nationally determined contributions (NDCs)	12
Ecocritical dialogues in teacher education	11
Responsible environmental education in the Anthropocene: understanding and responding to young people’s experiences of nature disconnection, eco-anxiety and ontological insecurity	11
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	11
Multiple forms of engagement and motivation in ecological citizen science	11
Using a statewide landscape analysis to inform fieldwide supports for environmental learning programs	11
Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes	11
Rethinking climate change education research: a systematic review of methodological approaches and gaps in perspective studies	11
Trainee teachers’ perceptions of outdoor education	11
What is the relationship between gender, connection to nature, stewardship, and environmental career aspirations? Implications for the field of environmental education	11
Transformative Sustainability Education – Reimagining our future	11
Connecting education and persuasion: insights from cognitive structure among college students in a pollinator conservation course	11
Effectiveness of education for sustainability: the importance of an action-oriented approach	11
Teachers’ profiles for education for sustainable development: implications for professional development	11
Problematisations of Sustainable Development: a decolonial perspective on education policies in Tanzania	11
Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL)	11
Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis	10
Measuring students’ perceptions of socio-ecological factors influencing their environmental attitudes and behaviors	10
What is political about a tree? Grappling with partisan divides in environmental education	10
Effects of vicarious experiences of nature, environmental beliefs, and attitudes on adolescents’ environmental behavior	10
Finding their way to act for nature through out-of-the-classroom learning – the case of the Green Traineeship	10
Environmental sustainability in economics teaching: analysing Spanish upper secondary economics textbooks	10
Language use in indoor and outdoor settings among children in a nature-based preschool	9
Developing school leading guidelines facilitating a whole school approach to education for sustainable development	9
Positioning controversy in environmental and sustainability education	9
Experimenting with dystopian scenarios and imagined futures as a critical and creative futures perspective in ESE	9
Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues	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
“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning	9
Outdoor environmental education in Southern Chile: teachers’ perspectives and challenges in excursions	9
Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project	9
Nature-based instruction for science learning – a good fit for all: A controlled comparison of classroom versus nature	8
Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan	8
Nature connectedness and green transition teaching in basic schools	8
Bridging pedagogy and technology: a systematic review of immersive virtual reality’s potential in climate change education	8
Barriers to children’s outdoor time: teachers’ and principals’ experiences in elementary schools	8
Redistributing the sensible: exploring aesthetic practices in a photography course	8
Change your wardrobe, change the world: empowering pre-service teachers to embrace responsible consumption	8
Exploring Han Kang’s The Vegetarian as a text for ecofeminism and sustainability in liberal arts 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
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
Energy conservation: awareness analysis among secondary school students	8
Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?	8
Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs	8
Who teaches place-based education: identifying relationships between environmental value orientation and pedagogical values	8
Developing sense of place through a place-based Indigenous education for sustainable development curriculum	8
Putting plants in the picture	8
‘I know how to say it, but I still don’t know it in my hands’: examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education	7
Rurality, identity, and motivations for tackling climate change (or not): a duoethnography	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
Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology	7
Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version	7
Bringing the sociology of sustainable consumption into conversation with education for sustainable development	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
Making evaluation work for the practitioner evaluator: experience from the field of environmental education	7
Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences	7
Shifting frames or participation? How young people’s understandings of sustainability interact with their agency	7
TVET model for building safety and sustainable agriculture in Iran by 2030 and beyond	7
Overcoming organizational fragmentation in environmental education – the networking role of local education offices	7
Use of nature-based schoolyards predicts students’ perceptions of schoolyards as places to support learning, play, and mental health	7
Learning for sustainability in Scotland: when best practice is not enough	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
We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals	7
Correction	7
Exploring climate scenario plausibility judgments and systems thinking competencies among non-STEM undergraduates	7
Exploring opportunities for the infusion of education for sustainable development into the primary-level mathematics curriculum in Jamaica	7
Determining high school students’ functional environmental literacy and the effect of participatory action research on functional environmental literacy	7
Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools	7