The roots and routes of environmental and sustainability education policy research

Abstract

Environmental Education Research has developed a Virtual Special Issue (VSI) (http://explore.tandfonline.com/content/ed/ceer-vsi) focusing on studies of environmental and sustainability education (ESE) policy. The VSI draws on key examples of research on this topic published in the Journal from the past two decades, for three reasons. First, to provide readers with a series of snapshots into the genealogy of ESE policy research in this field. Second, to encourage renewed attention to previously published work. And third, to offer commentary on the evolution of research trends, approaches and findings.

Keywords:

• environmental education
• education for sustainable development
• policy
• educational policy research

Acknowledgement

The authors owe many thanks to Alan Reid for the inspiring discussions during the making of this VSI, as well as the valuable feedback on an earlier version of this editorial.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.