eeRESEARCH

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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Transformative education approaches incorporating knowledge (heads), emotions (hearts), and action (hands) can help learners process eco/climate anxiety while fostering environmental engagement

Olsen, Emily K., Lawson, Danielle F., McClain, Lucy R., & Plummer, Julia D. (2024). Heads, hearts, and hands: a systematic review of empirical studies about eco/climate anxiety and environmental education. Environmental Education Research, 1-28. 10.1080/13504622.2024.2315572

New "Hope Wheel" model helps teachers to integrate hope into climate change education

Finnegan, William, & d’Abreu, Cathy. (2024). The hope wheel: a model to enable hope-based pedagogy in Climate Change Education. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1347392+. 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1347392

Anticolonial, creative, and embodied pedagogies centered on Indigenous knowledge(s) and relationships with the land and water are essential for transforming climate change education and cultivating more sustainable and just futures

Nxumalo, Fikile, & Montes, Pablo. (2023). Encountering creative climate change pedagogies: Cartographic interruptions. Research in Education, 117(1), 42-57. 10.1177/00345237231207493

Critical emotional awareness (CEA) is essential for teacher education to help educators and students process emotions effectively when learning about climate change while maintaining critical consciousness

Ojala, Maria. (2023). Climate-change education and critical emotional awareness (CEA): Implications for teacher education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 55(10), 1109-1120. 10.1080/00131857.2022.2081150

Emotions play a crucial role in education for environmental sustainability and climate change, requiring new teaching approaches

Dunlop, Lynda, & Rushton, Elizabeth A. C. (2022). Education for Environmental Sustainability and the Emotions: Implications for Educational Practice. Sustainability, 14(8), 4441+. 10.3390/su14084441

Educators employ strategies of engaging, validating, supporting, and empowering to help students cope with ecological distress and cultivate active hope in the face of climate change

Verlie, Blanche, Clark, Emily, Jarrett, Tamara, & Supriyono, Emma. (2021). Educators’ experiences and strategies for responding to ecological distress. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 37(2), 132-146. 10.1017/aee.2020.34

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.

Innovative evaluation shows improvement of five environmental education related outcomes in program participants

Garip, Gulcan, Richardson, Miles, Tinkler, Abigail, Glover, Susannah, & Rees, Alice. (2021). Development and implementation of evaluation resources for a green outdoor educational program. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52, 25-39.

Effects of pandemic policies on children's emotions in Portugal

Rios, Clementina, Neilson, Alison Laurie, & Menezes, Isabel. (2021). COVID-19 and the desire of children to return to nature: Emotions in the face of environmental and intergenerational injustices. The Journal of Environmental Education, 52, 335-346.

Revised environmental identity scale is effective with a broader, multicultural audience

Clayton, Susan, Czellar, Sandor, Nartova-Bochaver, Sofya, Skibins, Jeffrey, Salazar, Gabby, Tseng, Yu-Chi, … Rodríguez, Fredy Monge. (2021). Cross-Cultural Validation of A Revised Environmental Identity Scale. Sustainability, 13(4), 2387+. 10.3390/su13042387

Undergraduate program designers can develop impactful experiences by considering program and landscape features that affect student learning

Bieluch, Karen Hutchins, Sclafani, Alexandra, Bolger, Douglas T., & Cox, Michael. (2021). Emergent learning outcomes from a complex learning landscape. Environmental Education Research, 27(10), 1467-1486. 10.1080/13504622.2021.1947985

Schools that implement education for sustainability should invest in developing sense of community among teachers

Gan, Dafna, & Alkaher, Iris. (2021). School staff perceptions on education for sustainability and sense of community as reflected in an elementary school culture in Israel. Environmental Education Research, 27(6), 821-847. 10.1080/13504622.2021.1892030