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Engaging children: research issues around participation and environmental learning

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Pages 529-544 | Published online: 21 Sep 2007

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Gabriel Prosser Bravo, Rodrigo Rojas-Andrade, Camilo Caro Zúñiga, Ema Schröder Navarro & Iván Romo-Medina. (2023) Determinants of the implementation of participatory actions in the environmental education with children and adolescents in Chile. Environmental Education Research 0:0, pages 1-13.
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Irida Tsevreni, Anna Tigka & Vasilia Christidou. (2023) Exploring children’s participation in the framework of early childhood environmental education. Children's Geographies 21:3, pages 394-409.
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Stella Petrou & Konstantinos Korfiatis. (2022) Transformations of children’s environmental conceptions through their participation in a school kitchen-garden project. Environmental Education Research 28:4, pages 524-544.
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Forrest Schwartz, B. Derrick Taff, Ben Lawhon, Camilla Hodge, Peter Newman & Ellen Will. (2018) Will they leave what they find? The efficacy of a Leave No Trace education program for youth. Applied Environmental Education & Communication 17:4, pages 299-309.
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Ifigenia Iliopoulou. (2018) How young children think they can act for the environment: the case of forest and waste. Education 3-13 46:3, pages 249-263.
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Iris Duhn, Karen Malone & Marek Tesar. (2017) Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education. Environmental Education Research 23:10, pages 1357-1368.
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Coral M. Bruni, Patricia L. Winter, P. Wesley Schultz, Allen M. Omoto & Jennifer J. Tabanico. (2017) Getting to know nature: evaluating the effects of the Get to Know Program on children’s connectedness with nature. Environmental Education Research 23:1, pages 43-62.
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Tasos Hovardas. (2016) Primary school teachers and outdoor education: Varying levels of teacher leadership in informal networks of peers. The Journal of Environmental Education 47:3, pages 237-254.
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Vasiliki Kioupi & Margarita Arianoutsou. (2016) Greek Students Research the Effects of Fire on the Soil System through Project-based Learning. Journal of Biological Education 50:3, pages 304-319.
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Mercedes Varela-Losada, Pedro Vega-Marcote, Uxío Pérez-Rodríguez & María Álvarez-Lires. (2016) Going to action? A literature review on educational proposals in formal Environmental Education. Environmental Education Research 22:3, pages 390-421.
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Andrea Wheeler & Masoud Malekzadeh. (2015) Exploring the use of new school buildings through post-occupancy evaluation and participatory action research. Architectural Engineering and Design Management 11:6, pages 440-456.
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Maria Hedefalk, Jonas Almqvist & Leif Östman. (2015) Education for sustainable development in early childhood education: a review of the research literature. Environmental Education Research 21:7, pages 975-990.
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Agneta Ljung-Djärf, Lisbeth Åberg-Bengtsson, Torgny Ottosson & Dennis Beach. (2015) Making sense of iconic symbols: a study of preschool children conducting a refuse-sorting task. Environmental Education Research 21:2, pages 256-274.
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Pam Pointon. (2014) ‘The city snuffs out nature’: young people’s conceptions of and relationship with nature . Environmental Education Research 20:6, pages 776-794.
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Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér. (2013) Minds on Earth Hour – a theme for sustainability in Swedish early childhood education. Early Child Development and Care 183:12, pages 1782-1795.
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Nthalivi Silo. (2013) Dialogue—Missing in Action Competence: A Cultural Historical Activity Theory Approach in a Botswana School. The Journal of Environmental Education 44:3, pages 159-179.
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Tasos Hovardas & KonstantinosJ. Korfiatis. (2012) Adolescents' Beliefs about the Wolf: Investigating the Potential of Human–Wolf Coexistence in the European South. Society & Natural Resources 25:12, pages 1277-1292.
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Demetra Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Konstantinos Korfiatis, Andreas Ch. Hadjichambis & Margarita Arianoutsou. (2012) Conservation Reasoning and Proposed Actions for the Protection of Threatened Plant Species: Insights From a Sample of Rural and Urban Children of Cyprus. Society & Natural Resources 25:9, pages 868-882.
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Glynne Mackey. (2012) To know, to decide, to act: the young child’s right to participate in action for the environment. Environmental Education Research 18:4, pages 473-484.
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Yannis Hadzigeorgiou, Barbara Prevezanou, Mary Kabouropoulou & Manos Konsolas. (2011) Teaching about the importance of trees: a study with young children. Environmental Education Research 17:4, pages 519-536.
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Eva Ärlemalm‐Hagsér & Anette Sandberg. (2011) Sustainable development in early childhood education: in‐service students' comprehension of the concept. Environmental Education Research 17:2, pages 187-200.
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HeidiL. Ballard & JillM. Belsky. (2010) Participatory action research and environmental learning: implications for resilient forests and communities. Environmental Education Research 16:5-6, pages 611-627.
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Margaret Roberts. (2010) What is “evidence-based practice” in geography education?. International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 19:2, pages 91-95.
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Stephen Bigger & Jean Webb. (2010) Developing environmental agency and engagement through young people’s fiction. Environmental Education Research 16:3-4, pages 401-414.
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KonstantinosJ. Korfiatis, Tasos Hovardas, Elisavet Tsaliki & JoyA. Palmer. (2009) Rural Children's Views on Human Activities and Changes in a Greek Wetland. Society & Natural Resources 22:4, pages 339-352.
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Christiana Th. Nicolaou, Konstantinos Korfiatis, Maria Evagorou & Constantinos Constantinou. (2009) Development of decision‐making skills and environmental concern through computer‐based, scaffolded learning activities. Environmental Education Research 15:1, pages 39-54.
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Victoria Derr. (2018) Urban green spaces as participatory learning laboratories. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning 171:1, pages 25-33.
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Tiffany Kinder, Nancy O. Mesner, Mark Larese-Casanova, Kimberly H. Lott, Adrienne Cachelin & Katherine LaLonde. (2015) Changes in Knowledge and Attitude from a Short-Term Aquatic Education Program. Natural Sciences Education 44:1, pages 18-25.
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Chona Camille E. Vince Cruz, Fe Alma V. C. Espedido & Ryanorlie B. Abeledo. (2014) Shaping minds to action: an evaluation of the environmental influences of primary school students in an urbanizing community. Environment, Development and Sustainability 17:3, pages 641-652.
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Nia Haynes, Susan K. Jacobson & Dara M. Wald. (2015) A life-cycle analysis of minority underrepresentation in natural resource fields. Wildlife Society Bulletin 39:2, pages 228-238.
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Eva Ärlemalm-Hagsér & Julie Davis. (2014) Examining the Rhetoric: A Comparison of How Sustainability and Young Children's Participation and Agency are Framed in Australian and Swedish Early Childhood Education Curricula. Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 15:3, pages 231-244.
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