Education, Environment and Sustainability research group
Education, Environment and Sustainability Research Group
Advancing Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability.
About the group
The Education, Environment and Sustainability (EES) Research Group is committed to advancing research-based understandings and the scholarly development of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability.
We invite scholars, students and stakeholders to participate in developing and exchanging knowledge about EES through research, networking and scholarship.
We aspire to create work known for its high quality, collaborative aspects, and reflexivity.
Key dimensions and themes in our research
The group's research activities are shaped by critical considerations of three interrelated dimensions:
- Research and policy
- Engagement and impact
- Curriculum and pedagogy.
Key topics for our research, scholarship and supervision include:
- investigating a range of educational/environmental/sustainability factors that promote, support or challenge various forms of EES, including the rationales for and effects of particular principles, processes, designs, policies and contexts,
- reflecting on EES-related knowledge and discourse, including factors related to their scholarly underpinnings and justifications, conceptualisation and representation, production and governance, and engagement and critique.
National and international collaborations
Group members have extensive national and international experience in research, evaluation and consultancy. We have worked with a wide variety of environmental, sustainability and educational agencies and organisations, locally to globally. Please contact us for more information on examples and services members of the group can offer.
Internationally, we work regularly with active research networks and partners and academic centres in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. Our members have convened and/or advised international EES-related research conferences, workshops and seminar series.
Presentations
Editorial engagement
We have senior editorial responsibilities in various international journals and publications related to the research group, including the highly rated academic journal, Environmental Education Research (#eerjournal).
Group members
The group is currently led by Professor Alan Reid. Please forward any enquiries about visiting or collaborating with the group to alan.reid@monash.edu.
Interested in being supervised on a research degree by members of this group? Please visit the How to Apply website, and follow Steps 1 and 2 before making contact.
Please note various group members also contribute to Monash’s Master of Environment and Sustainability. For those with a background and experience in education and educational studies who require a taught graduate level qualification on how environment and sustainability might intersect with those, completing that Masters (or its equivalent) can offer a relevant foundation towards further study with us.
Monash staff
Affiliate members
Research students
- Belinda Davis
- Ni (Wiwi) Astuti
- Bony Irawan
- Desy Priyayi
- Matt Carew
- Jessica Abbonizio
- Nurul Hidayah
- Silvia Simai
Recent graduate research students
- Nicole Cowan
- Ellen Casey
- Ben Liu
Recent visiting scholars
- Jesus Granados Sánchez
- Mathilda Brückner
- Seyoung Hwang, National Youth Policy Institute
- Fran Martin
Key publications
The following is a small selection of our recent work and key publications. For a detailed list of outputs and associated projects, please see individual group members' profiles.
Journal articles
Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education
Rosie Welch, Nicole Taylor, Michael Gard
Sport, Education and Society (2023)
What counts as nature in designing environmental links to health education curriculum in initial teacher education?
Cumbo, B., & Welch, R.
Sport, Education and Society (2023)
The fierce urgency of now: integrating the youth voice at COP
Bowser, Templer, Ho et al.
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (2023), 21(4), 164-165.
Learning for sustainability: partnerships for the goals
Ho, Bowser, Templer, & Green
Sustainable Earth Reviews (2023), 6, [8].
Enabling grass roots activism and human rights-based education for sustainability: case studies of Australian youth organisations
Genevieve Hall, Libby Tudball
Human Rights Education Review (2023)
Towards climate neutral schools
Alan Reid
Education into the 2030s: The big education challenges of our times (2023), Selwyn, N. (Ed.), 31-33, Monash University
Educating for environmental citizenship: the goal of Victoria's environmental education organisations
Nicole Cowan, Annette Bos, Alan Reid
Eingana (2023), 19-24.
Teaching about climate change in the midst of ecological crisis: Responsibilities, challenges, and possibilities
Jennifer Bleazby, Gilbert Burgh, Simone Thornton, Mary Graham, Alan Reid & Ilana Finefter-Ronsebluh
Educational Philosophy and Theory (2023)
Sustainability in engineering education: A review of learning outcomes
Laura Gutierrez-Bucheli, Gillian Kidman & Alan Reid
Journal of Cleaner Production (2022), vol 330, #129734.
Scoping reviews: Their development and application in environmental and sustainability education research
Laura Gutierrez-Bucheli, Alan Reid & Gillian Kidman
Environmental Education Research (2022), 28:5, 645-673.
Measuring environmental locus of control: An analysis of instruments and their psychometric properties
Misol Kim, Alan Reid & Mark Rickinson
Environmental Education Research (2022), 28:4, 614-636.
Environmental attunement in the health and physical education canon: emplaced connection to embodiment, community and ‘nature’
Welch, R., Taylor, N., & Gard, M.
Sport, Education and Society (2021)
Environmental attunement in health, sport and physical education
Welch, R., Taylor, N., & Gard, M.
Sport, Education and Society (2021)
Impacts of direct disaster experience on teachers’ knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of disaster risk reduction curriculum implementation in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Ni Made Wiwik Astuti, I Komang Werdhiana & Unggul Wahyono
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (2021), 53:1, #101992.
The research-policy relationship in environmental and sustainability education
Mark Rickinson & Marcia McKenzie
Environmental Education Research (2021), 27:4, 465-479.
Understanding the research-policy relationship in ESE: insights from the critical policy and evidence use literatures
Mark Rickinson & Marcia McKenzie
Environmental Education Research (2021), 27:4, 480-497.
Colombia’s national policy of environmental education: a critical discourse analysis
María Angélica Mejía-Cáceres, Alejandra Huérfano, Alan Reid & Laísa María Freire
Environmental Education Research (2021), 27:4, 571-594.
Scientists’ warnings and the need to reimagine, recreate, and restore environmental education
Alan Reid, Justin Dillon, Nicole Ardoin & Jo-Anne Ferreira
Environmental Education Research (2021), 27:6, 783-795.
“I teach it because it is the biggest threat to health”: Integrating sustainable healthcare into health professions education
Gabrielle Brand, Jorja Collins, Gitanjali Bedi, James Bonnamy, Liza Barbour, Chanika Ilangakoon, Rosie Wotherspoon, Margaret Simmons, Misol Kim & Patricia Nayna Schwerdtle
Medical Teacher (2021), 43:3, 325-333.
Collectively engaging with theory in environmental education research
Yoshi Nakagawa, Blanche Verlie & Misol Kim
Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2020), 36:1, 1-19.
Researching Environmental and Sustainability Education Policy: Slumbers and Awakenings
Alan Reid
Journal of Philosophy of Education (2020), 54:4, 838–865.
Students’ Perceptions of Interdisciplinary Coursework: An Australian Case Study of the Master of Environment and Sustainability
Jessica K. Abbonizio and Susie S. Y. Ho
Sustainability (2020), 12:21, 8898.
Climate change education and research: possibilities and potentials versus problems and perils?
Alan Reid
Environmental Education Research (2019), 25:6, 767-790.
Reviews of research on the attitude–behavior relationship and their implications for future environmental education research
Tom Marcinkowski & Alan Reid
Environmental Education Research (2019), 25:4, 459-471.
Blank, blind, bald and bright spots in environmental education research
Alan Reid
Environmental Education Research (2019), 25:2, 157-171.
Return to sender: a behavioural approach to reducing food waste in schools
M. Boulet, B. Wright, C. Williams & M. Rickinson
Australasian Journal of Environmental Management (2019), 26:4, 328-346.
Sustainability in Australian schools: A cross-curriculum priority?
Melissa Barnes, Deb Moore & Sylvia Almeida
Prospects (2019), 47:4, 377–392.
Developing Teachers’ Environmental Literacy through Inquiry-based Practices
Gillian Kidman, Niranjan Casinader
Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (2019), 15:6, #1687.
Towards an Indigenist, Gaian pedagogy of food: deimperializing foodScapes in the classroom
Zane Ma Rhea
Journal of Environmental Education (2018), 49:2, 103-116.
Teacher Identities as Key to Environmental Education for Sustainability Implementation: A Study From Australia
Sylvia Almeida, Deb Moore & Melissa Barnes
Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2018), 34:3, 228-243.
Fieldwork, Sustainability, and Environmental Education: The Centrality of Geographical Inquiry
Niranjan Casinader & Gillian Kidman
Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2018), 34:1, 1-17.
Troubling the intersections of urban/nature/childhood in environmental education
Iris Duhn, Karen Malone & Marek Tesar
Environmental Education Research (2017), 23:10, 1357-1368.
Democratic and participatory citizenship: youth action for sustainability in Australia
Deborah Henderson & Elizabeth Tudball (2016)
Sustainable schools programmes: what influence on schools and how do we know?
Mark Rickinson, Matthew Hall & Alan Reid
Environmental Education Research (2016), 22:3, 360-389.
Perspectives From Emerging Researchers: What Next in EE/SE Research?
Claudio Aguayo, Blanche Higgins, Ellen Field, Jennifer Nicholls, Susan Pudin, Sangion Appiee Tiu, Maia Osborn, Farshad Hashemzadeh, Kevin Kezabu Lubuulwa, Mark Boulet, Belinda Christie & Jeremy Mah
Australian Journal of Environmental Education (2016), 32:1, 17-29.
Making 'place' for ecological sustainability in early childhood education
Iris Duhn
Environmental Education Research (2012), 18:1, 19-29.
Learners and learning in environmental education: a critical review of the evidence
Mark Rickinson
Environmental Education Research (2001), 7:3, 207-320.
Books, chapters and monographs
Civil engineering curricula and sustainability education: an international cross-case analysis of alignments and gaps
Laura Gutierrez-Bucheli, Alan Reid, Gill Kidman & Julia Lamborn
In Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition (2023)
Adaptation of Environmental and Sustainability Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Kerry Power, Sylvia Christine Almeida & Nicole Cowan
In Research and Teaching in a Pandemic World (2023)
Environmental Education
Alan Reid & Nicole Ardoin
In Oxford Bibliographies - Education (2024)
A Just Transition to Decarbonisation: Themes of Loss and Damage, Transport, Nature and Youth
Diane Kraal , Gerry Nagtzaam , Susie Siew Yuen Ho , Katie O’Bryan , Jadranka Petrovic (2023)
E-STEM in Everyday Life: How Families Develop a Caring Motive Orientation Towards the Environment
Sylvia Christine Almeida & Marilyn Fleer
In Outdoor Learning and Play (2021)
Declaring a climate emergency
Alan Reid
In Building Better Schools with Evidence-based Policy (2021)
Empowering Teachers through Environmental and Sustainability Education
Melissa Barnes, Deborah Moore & Sylvia Almeida (2021)
Addressing the SDGs through an integrated model of collaborative education
Wendy Stubbs, Susie S.Y. Ho, Jessica K. Abbonizio, Stathi Paxinos & Joannette J. (Annette) Bos
In Handbook on Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Development (2021)
Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change
Holmes, D., & Richardson, L. (Eds.) (2020)
Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences | 7th Edition
Rob Gilbert, Libby Tudball, Peter Brett (2020)
Curriculum and Environmental Education: Perspectives, Priorities and Challenges
Alan Reid (2020)
Urban Nature and Childhoods
Iris Duhn, Karen Malone & Marek Tesar (Eds) (2019)
Issues in Teaching and Learning of Education for Sustainability
Chew Hung Chang, Gillian Kidman & Andy Wi (Eds) (2019)
The humanities and social sciences: developing active and informed citizens for a changing world
Libby Tudball
In The Australian Curriculum: Promises, Problems and Possibilities (2018)
Environmental and Sustainability Education Policy: International Trends, Priorities and Challenges
Katrien Van Poeck, Jonas Lysgaard & Alan Reid (Eds) (2018)
Frontiers of taste: Food sovereignty, sustainability, and Indigenous-Settler relations in Australia
Zane Ma Rhea
Springer (2017)
Tackling Avoidable Food Waste in Western Australian Schools
Mark Boulet, Breanna Wright & Mark Rickinson (2016)
Environmental Education: Critical concepts in the environment
Alan Reid & Justin Dillon (Eds) (2016)
Synthesis of research in higher education for sustainable development
Mark Rickinson & Alan Reid
In Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (2016)
Environmental Education in a Climate of Reform: Understanding Teacher Educators' Perspectives
Sylvia Almeida (2015)
Identifying Needs in Environmental Education Research
Alan Reid & William Scott
In International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education (2012)