The mission of Environmental Education Researchis toadvance research-based and scholarly understandings of environmental and sustainability education. The journal achieves this by publishing peer reviewed research and scholarship on all aspects of environmental education, sourced from around the world and diverse schools of thought and practice in inquiry.
The editorial board welcomes submission of original, high quality and innovative papers derived from empirical, philosophical, practice-or policy-related investigations of environmental and sustainability education. The journal’s primary audiences are those working in or with the broad fields of education and educational research, and environmental studies, and relevant interdisciplinary or subdisciplinary aspects.
Manuscripts should be scholarly, analytical and critical. Ideas discussed and advanced should be transferable to other educational systems and cultures (where possible), and papers should be accessible to an international readership.
Advice, guidelines and templates for preparing manuscripts of a range of types are available in the Instructions for Authors and Environmental Education Research general guidelines, including on authorship and contributorship, special issues and guest editing, and other facets of publishing ethics.
The most cited and most read papers in the journal tend to be literature reviews, innovative empirical and theoretical studies, and analyses of key concepts in and approaches to environmental and sustainability education. In supporting the mission and aims of the journal, and to contribute to scholarly conversation and debate in this field, the editorial board strongly encourages authors to consult the scholarly literature in this and cognate fields when positioning and advancing arguments.
In addition to empirical and theoretical research articles (typically argued in 5,000-7,000 words, excluding references and other support material, such as figures, tables and boxes), Environmental Education Research also accepts the following manuscript types:
- Scholarly reviews: Extended essays and surveys, e.g., a literature review (typically 10,000-15,000 words);
- Review essays: on key questions, breakthroughs, developments, events, publications and trends (typically 3,000-5,000 words)
- Review symposia: a group of review essays;
- Research degree synopses (350 max words);
- Visual essays (a primarily visual format combining images and text in a coherent form).
Submissions might also offer:
- Critical commentary on research and developmental activities in environmental education;
- Retrospective analyses of activities in a field;
- Critical commentaries on policy or practice issues;
- Comparative aspects of an environmental education topic or theme;
- Conference reviews.
The journal also offers a review section for books, reports and publications in other media which advance research-based and scholarly understandings of environmental and sustainability education.
We support open access publishing, and are a member of the Committee on Publishing Ethics.
All original articles published in this journal have undergone rigorous double-anonymized peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by at least two anonymous referees.
Author Benefits
The journal is abstracted and indexed in several prestigious databases including Scopus, the Social Sciences Citation Index and more.
Our international Editorial Office, Editorial Board and referees will guide you from submission to publication.
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Editor:
Professor Alan Reid - Monash University, Australia
Editorial Assistant:
Claire Drake - Bath Spa University, UK
Associate Editors:
Dr Nicole Ardoin - Stanford University, USA
Professor Jo-Anne Ferreira - University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Professor Justin Dillon - University College London, UK (Book Reviews Editor)
Professor Katrien Van Poeck - Ghent University, Belgium
Founding Editor:
Professor William Scott - University of Bath, UK
International Advisory Board:
Dr Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard - Aarhus University, Denmark
Dr Sally Birdsall - University of Auckland, New Zealand
Professor Debby Cotton - Plymouth Marjon University, UK
Professor Iris Duhn - University of Tasmania, Australia
Professor Julie Ernst - University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Dr Therese Ferguson - University of the West Indies,Jamaica
Professor Annette Gough - RMIT University, Australia
Professor José Gutiérrez - Universidad de Granada, Spain
Professor Paul Hart - University of Regina, Canada
Professor Joe Heimlich - Ohio State University, USA
Associate Professor Joseph A. Henderson - Paul Smith’s College, USA
Professor Yi-Hsuan (Tim) Hsu – - Aletheia University, Taiwan
Professor Ruyu Hung - National Chiayi University, Taiwan
Professor Maria Pilar Jimenez-Aleixandre - Universidade de Santiago de Compostella, Spain
Professor Marianne Krasny - Cornell University, USA
Professor Heila Lotz-Sisitka - Rhodes University, South Africa
Professor Cecilia Lundholm - Stockholm University, Sweden
Professor Greg Mannion - University of Stirling, UK
Professor Tom Marcinkowski - Florida Institute of Technology, USA
Associate Professor Jamie Mcphie - University of Cumbria, UK
Professor Martha Monroe - University of Florida, USA
Associate Professor Scott Morrison - Elon University, USA
Dr Jutta Nikel - University of Education Freiburg, Germany
Professor Johan Öhman - Örebro University, Sweden
Professor Peter Van Petegem - University of Antwerp, Belgium
Dr Oren Pimony-Levy - Teachers College, Columbia University, USA
Professor Marco Rieckmann - University of Vechta, Germany
Professor Connie Russell - Lakehead University, Canada
Dr Joshua Russell - Canisius College, USA
Professor Lucie Sauvé - Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Dr Reingard Spannring - University of Innsbruck, Austria
Professor Stephen Sterling - Plymouth University, UK
Professor Robert B. Stevenson - James Cook University, Australia
Dr Kathryn Stevenson - NC State University, USA
Professor Arjen Wals - Wageningen University, The Netherlands
Environmental Education Research is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
If you choose to publish open access in this journal you may be asked to pay an Article Publishing Charge (APC). You may be able to publish your article at no cost to yourself or with a reduced APC if your institution or research funder has an open access agreement or membership with Taylor & Francis.
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