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Direct linkLouise Chawla – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This narrative review is the first to focus on how young people themselves express their experiences of participation in ecological restoration projects, as a guide to creating projects that engage them effectively. It gathers 10 qualitative and mixed-method studies that document young people's experiences through observations, interviews, focus…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Conservation Education, Ecology
Eun Yeong Choe; David Sheffield – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Beyond correlational studies exploring the benefits of nature exposure, there have been studies assessing interventions that aim to improve nature connection in children and adolescents. A feeling of connection with nature or 'nature connectedness' describes our attitude towards nature, primarily reflecting the emotional, cognitive, and…
Descriptors: Children, Adolescents, Natural Resources, Intervention
Kellen Copeland; Shaozeng Zhang; Bastian Thomsen; David Fennell; David G. Lewis; Sam Fennell; Amy Schneider; Marley Taylor; Dane Nickerson; Asier Hernandez-Saez; Bryan Breidenach; Kelly Faulkner; Judy Chen; Marshall Floyd; Liann Goldmann; Shelby Copeland; Max Duggan; Reilly Scheffing; Megan Mooney; Price Willoch; Matea Mihaljevic; Sommer Dalla-Bona; Michael Harte – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Wildlife-human relations in the United States are predominantly influenced by Euro-American sociocultural dynamics and (neo)colonial legacies. Humans dominate nonhuman animals through violence, suffering, and death. Wildlife management as a practice is becoming increasingly criticized. Disagreement emerges from epistemological and ontological…
Descriptors: Humanism, Experiential Learning, Environmental Education, Postcolonialism
Elisabeth Evans; Gary T. Green; Katherine F. Thompson; Jesse Abrams; Jennifer Jo Thompson – Environmental Education Research, 2024
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 development to help educators overcome barriers - including a lack of horticulture skills, curricular connections, and time - that often hinder program…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Gardening, Faculty Development, Photography
Anne Poelina; Marlikka Perdrisat; Sandra Wooltorton; Edwin Lee Mulligan – Environmental Education Research, 2023
This paper explains Feeling and Hearing Country as an Australian Indigenous practice whereby water is life, Country is responsive, and Elders generate wisdom for a communicative order of things. The authors ask, as a society of Indigenous people and those no longer Indigenous to place, can we walk together in the task of collectively healing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Indigenous Knowledge, Research Methodology
Shirin Betzler; Regina Kempen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Designing effective educational measures constitutes a key area of action for achieving global sustainability goals. Therefore, the present study examined a training addressing sustainable consumption practices in plastic reduction, fashion and food. An interactive training was held in a German comprehensive high school with grade 11 students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Sustainable Development, Plastics
Hafenscher, Priszcilla; Jankó, Ferenc – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Modern societies have loose ties to nature, environmental processes and problems remain mostly invisible to our eyes. This paper investigates environmental experts' motivations, thoughts, attitudes and beliefs in relation to environmental communication and their practice in promoting changes in people's environmental behavior via fifteen in-depth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Behavior Change, Information Dissemination
Deborah Dutta; Sanjay Chandrasekharan – Environmental Education Research, 2025
A critical objective of environmental education (EE) is sustained and active care for the natural world. Numerous studies point to the inadequacy of information-centered pedagogies in motivating such ecologically responsive action. The primacy of action in effectively addressing environmental issues calls for conceptions of EE that emphasize the…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Gardening, Sustainability, Motivation Techniques
Rosamund Portus; Sara-Jayne Williams; Erika Peklanska; Ruby Portus; Tom Walmsley – Environmental Education Research, 2025
This article considers innovative research in neuroscience and psychology showing that we need to transform environmental storytelling, moving away from stories focused on awareness raising, to ones which develop people's capacity for action. We investigate how this knowledge might be applied in an environmental education context, developing a…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Environmental Education, Learning Activities, Experiential Learning
Barbara Maria Sageidet; Ove Bergersen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
The Anthropocene is a geo-stratigraphic unit of the upper Earth's layers, impacted by human disturbances, but also humankind's historical record, and children's place to live on. It is an unfinished narrative. This study explores how garden and soil-related activities with kindergarten children, guided by well-informed teachers, may have the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education
Manuela Méndez-Herranz; Valeria Cabello – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Earth's biodiversity decline poses critical biocultural challenges, including food sovereignty and climate change adaptation. Teacher education can play a pivotal role in addressing biodiversity care. This study explores how preservice teachers learn about biodiversity care in teacher education programs, focusing on local biocultural contexts to…
Descriptors: Biodiversity, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Programs, Preservice Teachers
Adiv Gal – Environmental Education Research, 2024
A qualitative study adopting a phenomenological approach examined the feedback of 53 sixth-grade students (aged 11-12) who participated in an annual educational program on climate change and environmental activism. The program was structured around instilling hope while utilizing the 'head,' 'heart,' and 'hands' pedagogical framework. Research…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Activism, Grade 6, Middle Schools
Frederik Gerits; Hanne Cooreman; Laure Triste; Bert Reubens; Kris Verheyen; Lies Messely – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Within citizen science projects, learning about natural resources can encourage environmentally friendly behaviour. More empirical understanding is needed on how citizen science projects facilitate learning outcomes to support sustainable resource management, such as agrobiodiversity. Here we present the learning outcomes of a citizen science…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Science Projects, Citizen Participation, Biodiversity
Gan, Dafna; Gal, Adiv – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Emotion is a central aspect for protecting the environment in environmental and sustainability education (ESE). As such, positive emotions toward nature can increase motivation to learn and take environmental action. This qualitative case study explored the complex interrelationship among place-based education, emotions and values related to ESE,…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Emotional Response, Environmental Education, Sustainability
Bueddefeld, Jill; Ostrem, Julie; Murphy, Michelle; Halpenny, Elizabeth; Orr, Brian – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This paper presents findings from a research study exploring the effectiveness of three environmental education programs. The first was an interpretive program where visitors learned to safely interact with and 'pet' bees (control group), the second was the same interpretive program with the addition of post-visit action resources (interactive…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Program Effectiveness, Sustainability, Citizen Participation
