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.
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Running the risk: The social, behavioral and environmental associations with positive risk in children’s play activities in outdoor playspaces
Loebach, J., Ramsden, R., Cox, A., Joyce, K., & Brussoni, M. (2023). Running the risk: The social, behavioral and environmental associations with positive risk in children’s play activities in outdoor playspaces. Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42322-023-00145-1
Nature-based interventions for vulnerable youth: a scoping review
Overbey, T. A., Diekmann, F., & Lekies, K. S. (2023). Nature-based interventions for vulnerable youth: a scoping review. International Journal of Environmental Health Research, 33(1), 39. https://doi.org/10.1080/09603123.2021.1998390
Indigenous Knowledge Sharing and Botanical Literacies in Early Childhood Education
Beasley, Kimberley, Hesterman, Sandra, MacCallum, Judy, & Lee-Hammond, Libby. (2023). Indigenous Knowledge Sharing and Botanical Literacies in Early Childhood Education. International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 10(2), 21-35.
Assessing the impact of blue and green spaces on mental health of disabled children: A scoping review
Aghabozorgi, K., van der Jagt, A., Bell, S., & Brown, C. (2023). Assessing the impact of blue and green spaces on mental health of disabled children: A scoping review. Health and Place, 84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.103141
A critical, environmental and intercultural education model based on Latin American indigenous worldviews is a hopeful alternative to the narrow, capitalist-oriented SDG for education
Garcia-Arias, Jorge, Corbetta, Silvina, & Baronnet, Bruno. (2023). Decolonizing education in Latin America: critical environmental and intercultural education as an indigenous pluriversal alternative. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 44(8), 1394-1412. 10.1080/01425692.2023.2234088
Encountering creative climate change pedagogies: Cartographic interruptions
Nxumalo, Fikile, & Montes, Pablo. (2023). Encountering creative climate change pedagogies: Cartographic interruptions. Research in Education, 117(1), 42-57. 10.1177/00345237231207493
Co-development of learning activities with a community can lead to better educational outcomes
Leach, Carrie, Schroeck, N., Blessman, J., Rorai, V., Cooper-Sargent, M., Lichtenberg, P. A., & Trentacosta, C. J. (2022). Engaged communication of environmental health science: Processes and outcomes of urban academic-community partnerships. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 21(1), 7-22. 10.1080/1533015X.2021.1930609
Local conservation efforts could benefit from student involvement
Kamaludin, Mahirah, Azlina, A. A., Ibrahim, Wan Noorwatie Wan, Alipiah, Roseliza Mat, Saputra, Jumadil, Abdullah, Maizah M., … Omar, Chik Maslinda. (2022). Effectiveness of a conservation education program among school students on the importance of mangrove ecosystems in Setiu Wetlands, Malaysia. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 21(1), 23-41. 10.1080/1533015X.2021.1936298
Awe and solitude in urban parks boost nature connection better than traditional recreation
Mateer, Timothy J. (2022). Developing Connectedness to Nature in Urban Outdoor Settings: A Potential Pathway Through Awe, Solitude, and Leisure. Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 13 - 2022. 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.940939
Engaging students, teachers, and parents in recycling education can build community habits
Taghdisi, Mohammad Hossein, Estebsari, Fatemeh, Gholami, Mitra, Hosseini, Agha Fatemeh, Milani, Arezoo Sheikh, Abolkheirian, Samaneh, & Kandi, Zahra Rahimi Khalifeh. (2022). A training program of source-separated recycling for primary school students: Applying the health promoting schools model. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 21(1), 102-117. 10.1080/1533015X.2021.2001392
Successful program implementation may depend on the staff administering the program
Schulz, John H., Stanis, Sonja A. Wilhelm, Li, Christine Jie, Morgan, Mark, & Webb, Elisabeth B. (2022). Factors affecting staff support of a voluntary nonlead ammunition outreach program. Applied Environmental Education & Communication, 21(1), 55-72. 10.1080/1533015X.2021.1943062
Climate change education must center equity and justice to effectively address the complex intersections of environmental, social, and educational inequities that characterize both the causes and impacts of climate change
Sover, Katherine, & Walsh, Elizabeth M. (2022). Introduction: Climate Change Education Must Be Education for Justice: Historical and Conceptual Foundations for Centering Equity in Climate Change Education. In Justice and Equity in Climate Change Education. Routledge.