eeRESEARCH combines research for environmental education and the movement to connect children and nature. The database includes multiple ways to search for articles, syntheses, and research summaries.
This project is a partnership with Children & Nature Network and NAAEE. Funded by the Pisces Foundation with support from ee360, ee360+, and the U.S. Forest Service. Learn more.
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Assessing climate anxiety in caretakers and children and ways to overcome it
Baker, Cambry, Clayton, Susan, & Bragg, Eshana. (2021). Educating for resilience: parent and teacher perceptions of children’s emotional needs in response to climate change. Environmental Education Research, 27, 687-705.
Environmental education should consider non-human centered approaches to teaching for better understanding of animal welfare issues
Almeida, António, & Fernández, Beatriz García. (2021). Attitudes towards animal welfare in Portuguese students from the 6th and the 9th year of schooling: implications for environmental education. Environmental Education Research, 27, 911-935.
How Canadian environmental artists see their work as a form of environmental education
Yakamovich, Jennifer, & Wright, Tarah. (2021). Care-full, convivial, curious: Weaving Canadian artists’ conceptions of art as a form of transformative environmental education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52, 223-238.
Active learning encourages pro-climate and pro-environmental behavior in adolescents
Wu, Jing, & Otsuka, Yoshiki. (2021). Pro-climate behaviour and the influence of learning sources on it in Chinese adolescents. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 30, 24-38.
Climate-themed student films emphasize individual behavior change instead of structural changes
Tayne, Kelsey, Littrell, Megan K., Okochi, Christine, Gold, Anne U., & Leckey, Erin. (2021). Framing action in a youth climate change filmmaking program: hope, agency, and action across scales. Environmental Education Research, 27, 706-726.
Regular field trips in elementary schools build connection with the more-than-human world
Stapleton, Sarah Riggs, & Lynch, Kathryn. (2021). Fostering relationships between elementary students and the more-than-human world using movement and stillness. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52, 272-289.
Social media testing can help educators hone effective messages for conservation
Silvert, Colby J., Warner, Laura A., Loizzo, Jamie, & Shellhouse, Jarred. (2021). Social media split testing and message framing: Emerging capacities to encourage residential water conservation. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 20, 334-346.
Pre-service training improves Taiwanese government officials' environmental attitudes
Wang, XiaoHu, Berman, Evan, Chen, Don-Yun, & Xu, Jingyuan. (2021). Shaping pro-environmental attitudes among public service trainees: an experimental study. Environmental Education Research, 27, 295-311.
Pre-service course positively influences educators' interest and self-efficacy in leading field trips
Ordon, Kira-Joline, Bartelheimer, Maik, & Asshoff, Roman. (2021). Biology student teachers’ interest and self-efficacy in planning and conducting field trips after participation in a university course. Environmental Education Research, 27, 88-109.
Educator responses to student emotions in environmental education
Ojala, Maria. (2021). Safe spaces or a pedagogy of discomfort? Senior high-school teachers’ meta-emotion philosophies and climate change education. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52, 40-52.
Access to real data, geo-spatial tools, models, and field experience can improve environmental literacy
Marcum-Dietrich, Nanette, Kerlin, Steve, Hendrix, Amanda, Sorhagen, Nicole, Staudt, Carolyn, & Krauss, Zachary. (2021). Model my watershed: an investigation into the role of big data, technology, and models in promoting student interest in watershed action. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52(6), 384-397. 10.1080/00958964.2021.1979451
The limit of citizen science programs in the classroom
Williams, Katherine A., Hall, Troy E., & O’Connell, Kari. (2021). Classroom-based citizen science: impacts on students’ science identity, nature connectedness, and curricular knowledge. Environmental Education Research, 27(7), 1037-1053. 10.1080/13504622.2021.1927990