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The dirtiness of clean: Unearthing settler logics that sustain spatial woundings in the Capitalocene J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Erin C. Adams, Bretton A. Varga
In this article, we first (re)trace the presence and absence of mining, metals and extractionary practices, what we call MMEs, from environmental and sustainability curricular frameworks United Nat...
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Pushing toward systemic change in the Capitalocene: Investigating the efficacy of existing behavior prediction models on individual and collective pro-environmental actions in high school students J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Lauren Gibson, Kathryn Stevenson, K. C. Busch, Bethany Cutts, Erin Seekamp, Sarah Krementz
Environmental education often advocates for individual pro-environmental behavior—which, while beneficial to a degree, fails to match the large scale of today’s capitalism-fueled socio-ecological c...
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Prompts for eco-social transformation: What environmental education can learn from transformative design J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Mark Fettes, Lindsay Cole, Sean Blenkinsop
This paper seeks to bring together two seemingly disparate conversations, design and environmental education, with the intent to offer an interesting, new, useful approach to developing educational...
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An educational board game to promote the engagement of electric engineering students in ethical building of a sustainable and fair future J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Fátima Monteiro, Armando Sousa
Faced with the current unsustainability and recognizing the importance of engineering (and technology) in the Capitalocene, it is important to develop educational approaches that facilitate the awa...
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The development of a Competence Framework for Environmental Education complying with the European Qualifications Framework and the European Green Deal J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Andrea Tomassi, Alessandro Caforio, Elpidio Romano, Ernestina Lamponi, Alessandro Pollini
Following the severe impact of capitalist industrialization on the environment, the EU has funded several projects in the context of the European Green Deal to pursue climate neutrality by 2050. So...
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Education and full employment in the Capitalocene: Political possibilities, ecological imperatives J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jason van Tol
Imagine what education would look like if upon completion every graduate was guaranteed a job paying a living wage, democratically created, doing meaningful work… This is a political possibility in...
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Youth Created Media on The Climate Crisis: Hear Our Voice J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Haryanto, Waliyyatu Azzahra, Dewi Sulistyowati
Published in The Journal of Environmental Education (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Environmental Citizenship: Dutch students’ sustainability competences and avenues for science education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Van Harskamp M., Knippels M. C. P. J., Van Joolingen W. R.
Fostering Environmental Citizenship (EC) through science education equips students with competences needed for action-taking on sustainability issues. Quantitative studies show Dutch student EC com...
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WalkingScapes as ecopedagogy J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-26 Genevieve Blades
This study of ecologically lived experience focuses on walking as a sensory, embodied practice with/in Nature and extends the emergent conceptual and empirical literature on ecopedagogy as/in scape...
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Responsible consumers are made, not born: a clothing secondhand market experience in two Spanish high schools J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Carlota López-Fernández, Esther Paños, José-Reyes Ruiz-Gallardo
This article presents the assessment of two educational secondhand clothing markets developed at two high schools in Albacete. One of them involved money and the other was based on barter, and both...
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Housing in the Capitalocene: Environmental education and sustainable living J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 David R. Cole, Yeganeh Baghi
Capital and property have been combined since Karl Marx wrote Das Kapital in 1867. Indeed, capitalism and the housing market are interlinked because property is an asset whose indexed value upholds...
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Learning ecologies and agentic pedagogies: children meeting the world J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Susan Germein, Tessa McGavock
With a challenge to conceptualize an environmental/sustainability education that employs imaginaries and praxis for learning our way through and beyond our planetary crisis, we consider how posthum...
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The praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education in the Capitalocene J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 David R. Cole
This introduction to the special edition on the praxis and imaginary of Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) in the Capitalocene focuses on developing an argument about the underpinning...
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Stability in the heart of chaos; (Un)sustainable refrains in the language of climate crisis J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Sarah Evans
Set in the Capitalocene, this conceptual paper examines ‘sustainability’ in ecological education through a posthuman lens. I demonstrate how the Deleuzoguattarian concept of the refrain helps recon...
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Imagining well with almonds and honeybees in the Capitalocene – five multispecies movements for environmental and sustainability education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Marina Pliushchik, Tuure Tammi, Pauliina Rautio
Responses in resisting and subverting capitalist structures and practices often foreground imagination and experimentation. In environmental and sustainability education, imagination has been previ...
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Re-storying schools as “research sites” of climate change in the Chthulucene: diffractively reading through the land of a primary school in South Africa J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Rose-Anne Reynolds, Karin Murris
Inspired by Karen Barad’s agential realism and Donna Haraway’s use of the Chthulucene, our paper profoundly troubles and unsettles the humanist subject that has been the cause of so much trouble. R...
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First as waste, then as feral: The garbological imaginary of Korean stories for decolonizing a wasted world J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Hyena Kim
Overwhelming waste is one of the most compelling issues that contemporary environmental and sustainability education (ESE) should address. Understanding waste as an embodiment and offspring of ongo...
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A social ecological model of education: Economic problems, citizenship solutions J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-30 Jason van Tol
This article develops a model of education from Murray Bookchin’s social ecology by demonstrating how “the economy,” specifically growth and employment, intervenes between the environment and educa...
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Energy literacy: A review in education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Aishwarya Ramachandran, Naoko Ellis, Derek Gladwin
Energy literacy is a developing field of research and practice that provides a comprehensive way of understanding how energy functions in the universe, on the earth, and in our social and personal ...
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Ghanaian college teachers’ experiences and perceptions of traditional environmental beliefs and practices: Implications for environmental education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Juliet Atawuula Atuguba, Gordon Mabengban Yakpir
In recent years, there has been a call for the retrieval of indigenous knowledge systems relating to the environment to help provide solutions to current environmental problems. Using phenomenologi...
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Predator free 2050 and pedagogy: Teaching about introduced predators in Aotearoa New Zealand J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Alexandra Palmer, Sally Birdsall
Invasive species pose a threat to biodiversity, and as such feature in some conservation education programs. However, there is debate about how to teach this difficult subject. We explored perspect...
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Education to build agency in the Anthropocene J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Martha C. Monroe, Chris Eames, Peta J. White, Nicole M. Ardoin
Published in The Journal of Environmental Education (Vol. 54, No. 6, 2023)
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Far-right narratives of climate change acceptance and their role in addressing climate skepticism J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Balša Lubarda, Bernhard Forchtner
As research on far-right climate change communication focuses on climate skepticisms, little is known about how the far-right justifies climate acceptance—and what this might mean for environmental...
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Family matters: intergenerational influences on children’s agricultural literacy J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Caitlin Reilly, Kathryn T. Stevenson, Bethany B. Cutts, Sara Brune, Whitney Knollenberg, Carla Barbieri
Agricultural and environmental literacy are essential public goods, but associated education efforts struggle to reach broad audiences. Understanding learner backgrounds and lived experiences can h...
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A statement clamoring for peace in Palestine and Israel J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Alberto Arenas
Published in The Journal of Environmental Education (Vol. 54, No. 5, 2023)
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Nature as a peace educator: Toward inner peace through learning and being in natural environments J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Jwalin Patel, Carlotta Ehrenzeller
Today the hope for education goes well beyond a reductionist and modernist approach of knowledge transfer. This research suggests that the experience of being immersed in natural environments can l...
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Exploring conceptions of sustainability education in initial teacher education: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and Scotland J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Neus (Snowy) Evans, Hilary J. Inwood, Beth Christie, Emiko Newman
This paper draws on interview data to explore Australian, Canadian and Scottish teacher educators’ conceptions of sustainability education (SE) within initial teacher education (ITE). Findings were...
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Transformative ecojustice pedagogies: Outcomes of sociology students mentoring high school service learners J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Andrew Jon Schneller, Griffin Lacy, Scott Kellogg, Stacy M. Pettigrew, Cait Denny, Isaac Bardin
This case study investigated the transformative learning outcomes for undergraduate students enrolled in two sociology courses taught by The State University of New York at Albany, at an urban ecol...
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Exploring environmental stewardship among youth from a high-biodiverse region in Colombia J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Daniel Couceiro, Ivona Radoslavova Hristova, Valentina Tassone, Arjen Wals, Camila Gómez
Nature degradation is rooted in the disruption of the human-land connection. Its restoration requires the regeneration of environmental stewardship as a way to live within environmental limits, esp...
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“Are these girl ladybugs or boy ladybugs?”: An exploratory study on gender in nature-based education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-08-28 Abigail M. Decker, Scott A. Morrison
In this exploratory study, we examined the ways gender is communicated, experienced, and constructed in nature-based education (NBE), which involved 30 h of fieldwork at one private outdoor prescho...
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Between the local and the global: The tension of cultivating a bi-directional ecocritical awareness in education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Nicholas R. Werse
Although numerous approaches to cultivating an ecocritical awareness in students exist, much scholarly dialog has revolved around ecojustice education and ecopedagogy. Whereas the former seeks to c...
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Greenwashing and education: An evidence-based approach J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Olaya Álvarez-García, Jaume Sureda-Negre
Abstract In recent years, environmental issues have become the focus of societal concerns. In this context, the business world has been consolidating a form of green marketing management that merely conveys ambiguous or misleading messages rather than reflecting environmentally friendly business practices. This phenomenon is called greenwashing. This systematic review identifies and analyses the relationship
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Holistic listening to nature through the concept of the heart-mind in environmental education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-06-29 Shihua Tan
Abstract As a Chinese Canadian environmental educator and musician, I explore how the concepts of the heart-mind and holistic listening from guqin music could be applied to environmental education (EE) as a non-western perspective on the ecological crisis and the problematic separation between humans and nature. The early Chinese concept of the heart-mind (psyche) is exhibited in guqin culture. A cultivated
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The eel connection: Developing urban adolescents’ sense of place through outdoor interactions with a local organism J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Cornelia B. Harris, Alandeom W. Oliveira, Brett L. M. Levy, Alan R. Berkowitz, Chris Bowser
Abstract In response to growing concern about the increased disconnect between youth and their outdoor environment, this study examines how nature-based citizen science experiences with a local animal (American eels) influence urban adolescents’ (high-school students) sense of place in a US city. The juvenile American eel is a unique animal due to its see-through body, small size, lengthy migratory
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A field guide to climate anxiety: how to keep your cool on a warming planet, by Sarah Jacquette Ray J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-06-13 David Chang
Published in The Journal of Environmental Education (Vol. 54, No. 4, 2023)
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Understanding Austrian middle school students’ connectedness with nature J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Petra Bezeljak, Gregor Torkar, Andrea Möller
Abstract Fostering pro-environmental behavior to achieve a sustainable society is one goal of Education for Sustainable Development worldwide. Connectedness with nature positively correlates with pro-environmental behavior and therefore needs to be studied in detail. In this mixed-method study, applying the “Inclusion of Nature in Self” (INS)-scale, we investigated 1) how closely preadolescents from
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Using mixed reality (XR) immersive learning to enhance environmental education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Claudio Aguayo, Chris Eames
Abstract Mixed reality (XR) environments combining real-to-virtual immersive experiences provide unprecedented potential for reframing educational pedagogy and practice. XR environments provide scaffolded learning points accommodating individual needs, while enhancing sensorial and embodied experiences. XR environments can facilitate self-determined (heutagogical) experience-based learning and esthetic
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Digital technologies and environmental education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Greg Lowan-Trudeau
Abstract Digital technologies have become increasingly ubiquitous within environmental education and research settings. Alongside their notable affordances, the significant pedagogical, social, health, and environmental impacts of digital technologies must also be considered. This special issue provided a forum for authors to share related research and critically discuss such tensions and dynamics
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Digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic: Opportunities and challenges for environmental educators in Barcelona J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Andrea del Carmen Corres Gallardo, Isabel Ruiz-Mallén
Abstract The COVID-19 lockdowns forced environmental educators to increase the use of digital technologies, bringing to the forefront the need for critical research on the implications for teaching practice. Through interviews in Barcelona, we explore how environmental educators perceived related opportunities and difficulties and how these connect with their competencies in environmental education
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Enchantment and digital technologies: Cultivating children’s enchantment with the more-than-human through video-walks in local places J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Peter Renshaw, Kirsty Jackson, Harriet Mortlock, Ron Tooth
Abstract This paper considers how digital technologies contribute to awakening primary-school children’s enchantment with local places. We draw upon Bennett and Thoreau to theorize enchantment and adopt “enchantment as method” from Stainova to guide the research process. We analyze the contrasting digital artifacts produced by three children through video-walks in their backyards. In one case, Kay
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Fostering children’s ecological imagination with augmented storying J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Kristiina Kumpulainen, Chin-Chin Wong, Jenny Byman, Jenny Renlund, Jennifer A. Vadeboncoeur
Abstract In this study we investigated how augmented storying fosters children’s ecological imagination. Augmented storying couples culturally-based nature stories embedded in augmented storytelling technology with children’s own mobile and multimodal storying activities outdoors in local ecologies. The study took place during a four-month, cross-curricular project in a Finnish elementary school and
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Seeing microplastic clouds: Using ecomedia literacy for digital technology in environmental education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Antonio López
Abstract Connecting environmental and digital media education with the guiding metaphor of water, this article explores ecomedia literacy, a methodology that prompts students to perform a holistic analysis and systems thinking of gadgets using four zones of inquiry: ecoculture, political ecology, ecomateriality, and lifeworld. Ecoculture involves studying the discourses, symbols, and stories associated
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Connecting technologies and nature: Impact and opportunities for digital media use in the context of at-home family environmental learning J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Veronica J. Lin, Nicole M. Ardoin
Abstract Individuals increasingly rely on digital media technologies to learn about and access new information. Yet, despite the dramatic rise in electronic media use among youth and adults, our understanding of its impact, opportunities, and challenges within environmental education remains limited, especially in home contexts. Using a learning ecology framework, we conducted a two-week diary study
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Designing Chill City: An interactive game supporting public learning about urban planning for extreme heat J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-17 Jonathan Jae-an Crisman, Ladd Keith, Ida Sami, Gregg Garfin
Abstract Climate change and the urban heat island (UHI) effect are increasing extreme heat risk in cities across the world, and have already made extreme heat the top weather-related cause of death in the United States. Despite this, understanding of viable strategies to address extreme heat is still limited, for both decision-makers and the public. Using a design-based research methodology, we developed
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Unsettling “reduce-reuse-recycle”: the provocation of wastepaper and “discarding well” J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Jane Merewether, Mindy Blaise, Katie Pitchford, Stefania Giamminuti
Abstract This article engages with discard studies scholarship to interrogate findings from a study that set out to deliberately follow wastepaper in an early childhood setting. The study, which used participatory methods positioning teachers and children as research partners, began with purposeful noticing and attunement to paper’s movements and materiality. This attentiveness defamiliarized paper
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Education for the future: applying concepts from the new materialist discourse to UNESCO and OECD publications J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Lilija Duoblienė, Sandra Kaire, Jogaila Vaitekaitis
Abstract This paper analyzes concepts that represent future education and are related to the educational discourse in general and to environmental education in particular. The concepts of human agency, child agency, non-human, and more-than-human are reconsidered in view of the discourse of new materialism. Beginning with academic discourse, the authors are going to examine these concepts in the recent
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A better place for whom? Practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of environmental education in Finland and Madagascar J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Aina Brias-Guinart, Tuomas Aivelo, Markus Högmander, Rio Heriniaina, Mar Cabeza
Abstract Calls for a common environmental education (EE) vision imply imposing certain values as universal. Nevertheless, there is a lack of knowledge on the extent to which EE reflects universalities versus diverse sociocultural realities. We explored practitioners’ perspectives on the purpose of EE by interviewing practitioners in Finland and Madagascar using a theory of change approach. We classified
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Trauma-informed environmental education: Helping students feel safe and connected in nature J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-02-24 Nicole Marie Evans
Abstract In any given environmental education program there are students who have experienced trauma, yet the field has not expanded to consider the particular needs of these students. This paper weaves together strands from psychology, education, and healthcare to outline the concept of trauma and how it manifests in students and to introduce a series of principles for trauma-informed environmental
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“We should have held this in a circle”: White ignorance and answerability in outdoor education J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 Spirit Dine’tah Brooks, Leilani Sabzalian, Roshelle Weiser-Nieto, Shareen Springer
Abstract This critical ethnography highlights an ongoing research partnership between two Indigenous studies scholars and their effort to prepare outdoor educators to support Indigenous students more effectively in their programs. After a listening session at the Oregon Indian Education Association annual conference where Indigenous educators and community members urged the Oregon State University
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Education and the marine environmental issue: A historical review of research fields and the popularization on conservation and management of the sea and ocean in Brazil J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-01-11 Carmen Pazoto, Michelle Duarte, Edson Silva
Abstract Worldwide initiatives have been promoting awareness on marine environmental issues. In Brazil Maritime Mentality Program arises from political disputes over the right to use maritime spaces, Coastal Marine Environmental Education shares the same theoretical basis as Environmental Education and Ocean Literacy appears in the USA and became globally widespread after its inclusion as one goal
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Action-oriented approaches to teaching environmental science in Bhutanese secondary schools: Stakeholder perceptions J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Kishore Mongar, Frances Quinn, Sue Elliott
Abstract Bhutan aspires to balance sustainable socioeconomic development with environmental conservation to achieve Gross National Happiness (GNH). There are apparent alignments between GNH and the principles of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), but we recognize the role of the Bhutanese socio-cultural context for critically examining any alignments or misalignments with pervasive Western
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Is naturalness associated with positive learning outcomes during environmental education field trips? J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2023-01-04 Lydia Kiewra, Robert B. Powell, Marc J. Stern, Tyler Hemby, Matthew H. Browning
Abstract Do more natural settings improve students’ learning? We collected surveys immediately following 283 U.S.-based environmental education (EE) field trip programs for youth and used land cover data to examine the relationship between levels of naturalness, defined as the percentage of natural land cover of the EE field trip site, and student learning outcomes. We also examined whether differences
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In Memoriam—Harold R. Hungerford J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-11-08 Trudi Volk, Thomas Marcinkowski
Published in The Journal of Environmental Education (Vol. 53, No. 6, 2022)
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Urban ecojustice education: Transformative learning outcomes with high school service learners J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-04-18 Andrew Jon Schneller,Griffin Lacy,Scott Kellogg,Stacy M. Pettigrew,Cait Denny,Gabe Feldman-Schwartz,Isabel Beard,Andrew Rhodes,Brandon Wilson Radcliffe,Audrey Erickson,Isaac Bardin
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Down-to-earth ecological literacy through human and nonhuman encounters in fieldwork J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Kristin Persson,Maria Andrée,Cecilia Caiman
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Our SARS-CoV-2 teacher: Teachings of the pandemic about our relations with the more-than-human world J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-03-04 Valeria Ghisloti Iared,Lakshmi Juliane Vallim Hofstatter
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The utility and limitations of the New Ecological Paradigm scale for children J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-03-03 Claudio D. Rosa,Silvia Collado,Lincoln R. Larson
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Idwi, Xenopus laevis, and African clawed frog: Teaching counternarratives of invasive species in postcolonial ecology J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Dax Ovid,Fortunate Mafeta Phaka
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JEE stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Alberto Arenas,Sally E. Birdsall,Beth A. Covitt,Hilary Whitehouse,Neus (Snowy) Evans,Cae Rodrigues,Ess Page,Kelly J. Smith
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Time and sustainability: A missing link in formal education curricula J. Environ. Educ. (IF 2.957) Pub Date : 2022-01-02 Claire Grauer,Daniel Fischer,Pascal Frank