Schoolyards greening for connecting people and nature: An example of nature-based solutions?

Green schoolyards are an effective nature-based solution that can bolster human-nature relationships and contribute to ecological health

Blanc, N., Clauzel, C., About, C., Riché, A., Gippet, M., Bortolamiol, S., (2025). Schoolyards greening for connecting people and nature: An example of nature-based solutions?. Urban Sustainability, 5(64)

A systematic review of the impacts of nature exposure on the nervous system in children and youth: Implications for nature-based learning

Exposure to nature promotes a state of relaxed alertness, improved attentional processing, and optimal cognitive resource allocation for children and adolescents

Quintela Do Carmo, G., Ayotte-Beaudet, J., Jordan, C., (2025). A systematic review of the impacts of nature exposure on the nervous system in children and youth: Implications for nature-based learning. Journal of Environmental Psychology

Wild pedagogies and young children through the mosaic approach

Wild pedagogies supported children’s agency and relationships with place

Beattie, E. A., Scott, S., Adler, D., (2025). Wild pedagogies and young children through the mosaic approach. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 41, 249–260.

In search of eco-democracy: Education for mutually beneficial flourishing

Eco-democracy in environmental education could contribute to mutually beneficial flourishing

Blenkinsop, S., Wilhelmsson, L., (2025). In search of eco-democracy: Education for mutually beneficial flourishing. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 41, 325–337.

Transforming pedagogical landscapes in the Anthropocene: perspectives on more-than-human agency and nature as a co-teacher in vernacular way

Educators’ respectful relationships with nature can center nature as a co-teacher and acknowledge the agency of the more-than-human world

Kondo, J., Baars, R. C., (2025). Transforming pedagogical landscapes in the Anthropocene: perspectives on more-than-human agency and nature as a co-teacher in vernacular way. Environmental Education Research, 31(8), 1658-1673.

Children’s perceptions of nature experiences from participating in a nature experience for nature connectedness intervention in Swedish school-age educare

After-school programs can foster children’s nature connectedness through frequent experiences in nearby nature

Wünsche, T. U., Beery, T., Fridberg, M, (2025). Children’s perceptions of nature experiences from participating in a nature experience for nature connectedness intervention in Swedish school-age educare. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning

Unearthing forest pedagogies: Autoethnographic encounters within critical forest studies

Children’s and parents’ forest school encounters reveal a forest-led pedagogy

Chartrand, M., (2026). Unearthing forest pedagogies: Autoethnographic encounters within critical forest studies. Australian Journal of Environmental Education