Introduction

ChangeScale has collaborated with Stanford University researchers to create this sixth volume of the Environmental Education Research Bulletin. The most talented environmental educators we know are conducting place-based programs, working with communities, and using hands-on strategies to make critical links between enhancing environmental awareness, building skills, and supporting informed action. Yet rarely do these committed professionals have time to keep up on the latest research whose beneficial findings may enhance the effectiveness of environmental education programming. To that end, these bulletins aim to help bridge the research-and-practice gap by summarizing recently reported research. In turn, we hope that practitioners may be inspired to infuse their work with recent findings.

In this issue, we include synopses of peer-reviewed journal articles that are particularly relevant for frontline environmental education practitioners. We reviewed issues (published between July and December 2013) of a number of environmental education-related journals, including: Journal of Environmental Education, Environmental Education Research, Applied Environmental Education and Communications, Australian Journal of Environmental Education, Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, Journal of Experiential Education, International Journal of Science Education, Science Education, Visitor Studies, Journal of Interpretation Research, Environmental Research Letters, and the Journal of Environmental Psychology.