Environmental and Sustainability Education

• Animals in environmental education research by Reingard Spannring. Publication Date: 2017

  This paper reviews the literature on animals in environmental education with respect to its theoretical foundations in critical pedagogy, ecofeminism and posthumanism, considers empirical work on formal, nonformal and informal learning spaces and discusses the implications of an animal-focused paradigm for teaching and research. In the conclusion the author suggests some areas for further inquiries from her own research and teaching experience.

• Potential Guidelines for Conducting and Reporting Environmental Education Research: Qualitative methods of inquiry by N.J Smith-Sebasto. Publication Date: 2000

  This article presents guidelines for conducting and reporting qualitative EE research developed during a 10-hour (1-day) workshop sponsored by the North American Commission on Environmental Education Research during the 1997 annual meeting of the North American Association for Environmental Education. It is hoped that by sharing the efforts of the workshop participants with the much broader EE research community unable to participate in the workshop, opportunities for comment and, if necessary, revision of the guidelines will be maximized.

• The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education by Mark Richinson and Marcia McKenzie. Publication Date: 2021

  This article introduces a Special Issue that brings together new work from both within and beyond ESE that has explored the research-policy interface in varied contexts and from diverse perspectives.

• Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education by Emily Nicolosi & Adrienne Cachelin. Publication Date: 2022. 

  In this paper, we explore critical approaches to pedagogy, place, and community engaged learning, as well as their specific resonance with the challenges inherent in environmental justice education.

• Blank, blind, bald and bright spots in environmental education research by Alan Reid. Publication Date: 2019. 

This editorial essay examines articles that help sharpen our collective sense of what is worth investigating in environmental and sustainability education, as well as what has been found or concluded. But also more than this: that the studies we publish help develop how we might ground and prioritize what comes to matter in and across the multiple and overlapping worlds of scholarship, policy, practice and theory related to these self-same fields, and beyond.