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Correction Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-18
Published in Environmental Education Research (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Transforming practices through social learning: change and stability, collectivity and materiality Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Anna Baatz
Despite arguments that learning processes are drivers of sustainability transitions, the dynamics of how learning processes take place in everyday life and influence practices remain unclear. An an...
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Beyond an anthropocentric view of praxis: towards education for planetary well-being Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Hannu L. T. Heikkinen, Rauno Huttunen, Kathleen Mahon, Stephen Kemmis
A number of philosophical perspectives, such as deep ecology, posthumanism, and new materialisms, to name a few, have challenged the deep-rooted anthropocentric assumptions about human exceptionali...
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The relationship between student participation and students’ self-perceived action competence for sustainability in a whole school approach Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Ane Eir Torsdottir, Daniel Olsson, Astrid Tonette Sinnes, Arjen Wals
This study examines the relation between student experiences of participation in a whole school approach (WSA) and students’ self-perceived action competence. We surveyed 902 students in three Norw...
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Connectedness to nature: a tale of three scales Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Thomas Beery, Marie Fridberg, Søren Præstholm, Tanya Uhnger Wünsche, Mads Bølling
A substantial body of research highlights the value of nature experience in supporting children’s well-being and development. Given the growing interest in connectedness to nature (C2N), a better u...
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Underwater virtual reality for marine education and ocean literacy: technological and psychological potentials Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Géraldine Fauville, Anaïs Voşki, Marijn Mado, Jeremy N. Bailenson, Annika Lantz-Andersson
Given the crucial role the ocean plays in human and planetary health, ocean literacy (OL)—understanding the ocean’s influence on us and our influence on the ocean—has been gaining momentum as a sig...
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Exploring habits of mind associated with incremental learning theory to explain actions of teachers integrating environmental education Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Jennie F. Lane, Servet Altan, Rebecca L. Franzen
This study was launched after re-analyzing teacher narratives from an earlier study; the narratives were reflections on environmental education practices. The analysis involved using a framework th...
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Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Anttoni Kervinen, Riikka Hohti, Pauliina Rautio, Maria Helena Saari, Tuure Tammi, Tuomas Aivelo
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. ...
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Exploring environmental value action gap and education research: a semi-systematic literature review Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Rosamund Portus, Essi Aarnio-Linnanvuori, Bronagh Dillon, Frances Fahy, Deepak Gopinath, Anette Mansikka-Aho, Sara-Jayne Williams, Kathy Reilly, Lindsey McEwen
Despite rising levels of interest in global environmental challenges, progress towards the widespread adoption of pro-environmental behaviours remains slow and inconsistent. Previous literature ide...
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Nature or the outdoors? Understanding the power of language in elementary students’ self-reported connection to nature Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Julianne Reas, Kathryn T. Stevenson, Lauren Gibson, Justin Beall, Lincoln R. Larson
Many previous studies have measured elementary-aged students’ connection to nature (CTN), but few have explicitly considered how the use of different terminology (e.g. ‘nature’ versus ‘the outdoors...
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Inquiring sustainability through dialogic Video Clubs in upper secondary schools Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Cæcilie Damgaard Ketil Hejl, Ane Qvortrup
The recurrent reminders that climate changes are man-made and demand action, calls for the development of novel teaching approaches which besides transferring information, solutions, and values, al...
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Nature Relatedness Scale: psychometric properties of the Portuguese version Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ana Silva, Mariana Gonçalves
Environmental education would strongly benefit from a socioecological approach that encompasses the human-nature relationship in all its dimensions. Nature relatedness appears to be an essential tr...
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City-level sustainable development impacts on environmental literacy: feelings toward nature, environmental knowledge, and pro-environmental behavior Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Fanli Jia, Wan Wang
Research in environmental education adopts a broad concept of environmental literacy, recognizing the multifaceted nature that encompasses cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. However, ...
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From program to classroom: a photo elicitation study to understand educators’ experiences implementing garden-based learning following professional development Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Elisabeth Evans, Gary T. Green, Katherine F. Thompson, Jesse Abrams, Jennifer Jo Thompson
Garden-based learning, a key component of Farm to School (FTS), continues to grow in popularity as a tool for engaging students in hands-on learning. Recent literature calls for professional develo...
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Development of the inventory of biotic climate literacy (IBCL) Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Emily A. Holt, Jessica Duke, Ryan Dunk, Krystal Hinerman
Student understanding of climate change is an active and growing area of research, but little research has documented undergraduate students’ knowledge about the biotic impacts of climate change. H...
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Estimating the economic value of environmental education: a case study of South Korea Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Jinyoung Kang, Donggyu Yi, Jong Ho Hong
Environmental education (EE) has received more and more attention worldwide. In Korea, there is a national consensus on the importance of EE; however, it is not as much of a priority as other educa...
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Heads, hearts, and hands: a systematic review of empirical studies about eco/climate anxiety and environmental education Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Emily K. Olsen, Danielle F. Lawson, Lucy R. McClain, Julia D. Plummer
Can environmental education help to mitigate learners eco/climate anxiety? Anxiety surrounding climate change has drastically risen in youth in recent years. This paper aims to answer the call from...
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Climate change content in Colombian schoolbooks Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-11 Diana Bonilla, Benjamin Quesada
Education plays a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis, with textbooks serving as influential vehicles for shaping societal perspectives and students’ competencies. However, in Colombia as...
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‘Why am I involved in environmental education?’ Using narrative inquiry to explore the identity and practice of teachers committed to environmental education Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Naya Grillia, Maria Daskolia
Based on self-reflective narratives, our study focuses on the lived experience of four Greek primary school teachers who are acknowledged for their personal commitment to environmental education. T...
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What children know and want to know about climate change: a prior-knowledge self-assessment Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Zara Teixeira, Rita Morgado, Cátia Marques, Carlos Gonçalves, Paula Carvalho, Ana Cunha, Cláudia Moreira
Researchers engaging in science communication tend to present information that they find most important. However, understanding the level of prior knowledge and interest of a target audience is key...
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Perceptions of the sustainable development goals: a Q-methodology study with Turkish preservice teachers Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Halil Cokcaliskan, Hasan Zuhtu Okulu, Alper Yorulmaz
This study identified preservice teachers’ perceptions toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The study group comprised 22 Turkish preservice primary school teachers. The Q-methodology wa...
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Integrating climate change across the disciplines: review of a faculty learning community and student climate literacy assessment model Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Elise DeCamp
This paper begins with a broader discussion of the current efforts to address the gap in integrating the topic of climate change across university curricula. This context informs the study’s primar...
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Supporting primary students’ critical thinking in whole-class conversations about sustainability issues Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Marthe Berg Andresen Reffhaug, Emilia Andersson-Bakken, Kirsti Marie Jegstad
In environmental and sustainability education, critical thinking is important for the pluralistic teaching tradition, creating opportunities for student autonomy, deliberation and participation. Ho...
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Role of the English teaching hidden curriculum in sustainability education: the case of Japan Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Charles Allen Brown
Scholarship has neglected relationships between the hidden curriculum and environmental sustainability. The prevalence of ELT worldwide coupled with the importance of behavioral norms in sustainabi...
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Making kin in the forest: explorations of ecological literacy trough contemplative practices in a Swedish folk high school Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Kristin Persson, Maria Andrée, Cecilia Caiman
This study is about the use of contemplative practices in forest fieldwork and how such practices could support the growth of ecological literacy. Ecological literacy is explored by employing Donna...
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A retrospective study of a climate change communication train-the-trainer program Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Megan Ennes, Natalie Triana
Train-the-trainer programs are an effective method for improving educators’ content knowledge and pedagogical skills. They also offer a way to reach more educators than by traditional professional ...
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Enhancing preschoolers’ creativity through art-based environmental education for sustainability Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Marianthi Kalafati, Evgenia Flogaiti, Maria Daskolia
Creativity is key in developing students’ environmental competence so that they come up with working and sustainable solutions to address environmental issues in daily life. However, these remain u...
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An evaluation tool for the network of schools for sustainability in Catalonia from a constructivist perspective Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Arnau Amat, Chadia Rammou, Laura Martín-Ferrer
The main aim of this research is to present an evaluation tool for the Network of Schools for Sustainability in Catalonia, which comprises 18 networks with more than 1400 schools. The secondary aim...
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We all need to be water protectors: diversity, the environment, and social and environmental justice picturebook themes and portrayals Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Karen M. Hindhede, Adriana R. Saavedra
This paper describes a methodological review of over 2,000 picturebook descriptions and 60 picturebooks published within five-and-a-half years relating to diversity, the environment, social justice...
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Population growth as the elephant in the room: teachers’ perspectives and willingness to incorporate a controversial environmental sustainability issue in their teaching Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-03 Iris Alkaher, Nurit Carmi
Although population growth (PG) is acknowledged as a major factor that drives the global environmental crisis, this issue is rarely included in environmental and sustainability education (ESE) beca...
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Knowledge, urgency and agency: reflections on climate change education course outcomes Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Ellen Field, Paul Berger, Devon Lee, Courtney Strutt, Anh Thu Nguyen
This research arose out of conversations among climate change education instructors teaching at Lakehead University and our shared interest to better understand student experiences in our courses, ...
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Fostering environmental personal norms: the role of environmental education in Nigerian pre-service teachers’ environmental knowledge, pro-environmental beliefs and behaviours Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Adaobiagu Obiagu, John Ocheje, Ifunanya Ofodum, Emmanuel Eze
This research investigated the role of environmental education (EE) in acquiring environmental knowledge, pro-environmental beliefs and pro-environmental behaviours among a sample of pre-service te...
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Climate change and education in shades of blue: between darkness and light with agential realism and object-oriented ontology Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-22 Annelie Ott
Climate change education is infused with images of light. Scholars in the field tend to emphasize hope, sustainability, and solution. They foreground knowledgeable humans who construct better world...
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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 contexts Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Emily G. Thorpe, Marc. J. Stern, Robert B. Powell, Tyler L. Hemby
Political polarization in the United States has made many environmental issues strongly partisan, with Democrats largely receptive to environmental messaging and Republicans commonly pitted against...
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Framing engagement and public participation in local climate conferences Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Benzi Slakmon, Ido Gideon, Omer Keynan
In a yearlong ethnographic study, we actively participated as members of the national planning committee for fourteen local climate conferences, we examined how citizen participation was imagined a...
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Does environmental education work differently across sociopolitical contexts in the United States? PART I. Exploration of outcomes for adolescent youth Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Emily G. Thorpe, Marc. J. Stern, Robert B. Powell, Tyler L. Hemby
In the United States, the two main political parties, Democrats and Republicans, have become increasingly polarized, including with regard to environmental issues. As part of a national study of en...
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Aesthetic knowing and ecology: cultivating perception and participation during the ecological crisis Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Ramsey Affifi
This paper develops the concept of aesthetic knowing, its significance in perceiving and participating in ecologies writ large, and challenges that arise in engaging it during a time of ecological ...
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What does nature mean to you? A photo analysis of urban middle school students’ perceptions of nature Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Petra Bezeljak Cerv, Andrea Möller, Bruce Johnson
In the present study, we explore the perceptions of urban middle school students’ representations of nature using participatory photography and their nature connectedness. Preadolescents (N = 108, ...
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Culture workers against big oil: the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Stuart Tannock
This article argues for the importance of labor education in fighting the climate crisis, a vital form of education too often overlooked in the climate movement. Drawing on a case study of unionize...
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Creativity, curiosity and catharsis: positive emotions in climate change education through picturebooks Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Rowan Oberman
Climate change education is associated with negative emotions. Picturebooks are considered powerful resources for teaching complex issues like climate change, partly for their capacity to be emotio...
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Navigating eco-anxiety and eco-detachment: educators’ strategies for raising environmental awareness given student’s disconnection from nature Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Rachael C. Edwards, Brendon M. H. Larson, Susan Clayton
Awareness of environmental problems such as climate change can motivate action, but educators debate whether to raise students’ awareness given that it may provoke eco-anxiety. We have even less un...
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Dissecting the ethics of choreographed encounters with animal death in the zoo: a posthumanist lens on dark pedagogy Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Eimear Mc Loughlin
Choreographed encounters with death in Copenhagen Zoo, such as school and public dissections, emphasize the importance of touch and are underpinned by the moral imperative to understand the nature ...
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An iterative adaptive developmental evaluation framework: case study of the TREE semester learning community Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Howard Drossman
Program evaluation frameworks that assess organizations as complex adaptive systems can open our eyes to new approaches and understandings. The proposed iterative and adaptive developmental program...
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Taiwanese junior high social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Yun-Wen Chan
This study explores Taiwanese junior high school social studies teachers’ definitions of sustainability, using a qualitative semi-structured interview approach. Three themes explaining these teache...
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Transformative climate change education and the school caretaker: a more-than-human analysis with young people Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Nina Liebhaber, Claire Ramjan, Melanie Frick, Greg Mannion, Lars Keller
Schools are central to climate change education and climate-friendly transformations both as places which actually produce CO2 emissions and, above all, as educational institutions. Following a new...
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Emotions and perceptions surrounding teaching climate change in the United States: results from a teacher survey Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Susan Clayton, Angeline Sangalang, Rebecca Anderson
Children are worried about climate change. Educational settings provide an opportunity to help children cope with their worries, but teachers do not always feel comfortable doing so. One reason for...
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Exploring education for sustainable development (ESD) course content in higher education; a multiple case study including what students say they like Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-19 Phyllis Araneo
This paper aims to contribute to the field of knowledge surrounding Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) curricula with a view to filling a gap in ESD literature by identifying features that...
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Teachers’ expressed understandings concerning sustainability in the Norwegian ECE context Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Jan H. Vikane, Torhild Erika L. Høydalsvik
Education for Sustainability (EfS) seeks to empower children with knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes to address global challenges while adhering to sustainability principles. This study inves...
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Unveiling climate change education in Telebachilleratos del Estado de Veracruz (TEBAEV): an exploratory sequential analysis Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Bethzabeé Velázquez-Martínez, Ana-Lucía Maldonado-González, Samana Vergara-Lope Tristán
The issue of climate change is addressed within Mexico’s Common National Curriculum, which serves as the foundation for developing educational materials like didactic guides and videos aimed at hig...
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Towards an interdisciplinary agenda for teaching in the climate crisis: reflections from the humanities and social sciences Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Steph Houghton, Jillian Garvey, Liz Conor, Brooke Wilmsen, Julia Dehm, Ruth Gamble, Ben Habib, Katie Holmes, Jacqueline Millner, Keir M. Strickland
The current anthropogenic climate crisis presents unique challenges to the higher education classroom. Pedagogy in the context of climate change must be attuned to complex and varied student experi...
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The representation of sustainable development goals in a national curriculum: a content analysis of Taiwan’s 12-Year Basic Education Curriculum Guidelines Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Pei-I Chou, Ya-Ting Wang
Despite the increasing focus on incorporating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into education through curriculum mainstreaming, related research remains lacking. This study explored the rep...
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Socio-demographic profiles and academic outcomes for participants of the ‘school strikers for climate’ in Belgium Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Gil Keppens
During the spring of 2019, approximately 1.6 million people in over 1700 cities worldwide participated in strike action to raise public awareness of government inaction on climate change. The large...
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Exploring environmental sensitivity and significant life experiences in African American and Hispanic American college students: a mixed methods study Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-09-23 Danielle Pastor
Published in Environmental Education Research (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2024)
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Correction Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-09-08
Published in Environmental Education Research (Vol. 29, No. 8, 2023)
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Complexity as a challenge in teaching sustainable development issues: an exploration of teachers’ beliefs Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Dorothea Taube
This article reports the results of an empirical investigation on teachers’ beliefs about teaching and learning and the globalised world as a teaching subject. Following a qualitative reconstructiv...
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Shifting from climate change denial to acceptance: a mixed-method, semester long case study in an undergraduate first-year experience course Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-09-06 David R. Cordie, Leigh Maxwell
Climate change denial is often treated as a binary opinion. However, an individual can express acceptance of climate change, while still denying other aspects of the field such as its causation by ...
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Participation changed my mindset. Transformative learning about agrobiodiversity in citizen science projects Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Frederik Gerits, Hanne Cooreman, Laure Triste, Bert Reubens, Kris Verheyen, Lies Messely
Within citizen science projects, learning about natural resources can encourage environmentally friendly behaviour. More empirical understanding is needed on how citizen science projects facilitate...
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K-12 science achievement: time-varying influence of Green School initiatives Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Juliann Dupuis, Rachel E. Durham
Green School Programs are an internationally recognized effort that transforms schools into environmentally friendly entities and engage school communities in environmentally impactful efforts. Suc...
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Overview of the implementation of a 30-year programme on environmental and sustainability education in Spain Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Julia Gracia, Jerónimo Torres-Porras, Jorge Alcántara-Manzanares
Over the past 30 years, ‘Aldea’ (global village), the Education for Environmental and Sustainability (ESE) School Programme has been implemented in over one thousand public schools in Andalusia, So...
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Once upon a time: the impact of storytelling on connecting people to natural landscapes Environ. Educ. Res. (IF 3.725) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Karen Hughes, Gianna Moscardo
Humans use stories to explain natural processes, to explore alternatives, to resolve issues, and to imagine different possibilities and futures. Stories are a fundamental way people connect to thei...