Environmental education for youth and adults: a bibliometric analysis of research

Kateryna Onopriienko,Yurii Petrushenko,Iryna Onopriienko,Volodymyr Onopriienko,S Bourekkadi,K Slimani,O Omari,J Abouchabaka

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/202123400002

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Abstract

In recent years there has been a sharp increase in the interest of humanity to environment preservation. It has become clear that the reckless use of nature will sooner or later lead to a catastrophe that will have not only environmental, but also economic and social consequences. The article provides a bibliographic analysis of scientific papers from around the world on the basis of Scopus with the keywords "environmental education" and "environmental adult education" for the period 1968 - 2019. It was found that in this regard most attention is paid to the US authors. The scientific works of the authors, who are the leaders in terms of the number of publications on environmental education of adults, have been studied. With the help of Vosviewer software it was determined which countries publish the biggest and the smallest number of scientific papers with the keyword "environmental adult education". Scientific works of domestic scientists were also analyzed. Adult education is becoming important in addition to the classic concept of school education. The article analyzes, which fields of science have the biggest and the smallest number of scientific papers with the keyword "environmental adult education", where social and environmental sciences became the leaders.

Highlights

The expediency of environmental education of adults is a well-known fact, because the vast majority of countries in one sense or another owe their technological, sociocultural and economic progress to this field of education.In the same way, they represent a vector of their further socio-economic growth through its development
The author notes that changing ways of “environment” represent in the discourses of environmental education and education for sustainable development in the United Nations
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Summary

Introduction

The expediency of environmental education of adults is a well-known fact, because the vast majority of countries in one sense or another owe their technological, sociocultural and economic progress to this field of education. Human development begins with education, it does not end with school education, but should last a lifetime. As we know, the educational impact begins with copying the actions of adults. These positions justify the need to raise the level of ecological culture of society as a whole, focusing adult education on the formation of moral values, awareness of their personal role in creating a harmonious relationship between society and environment

Analysis of research

Bibliometric analysis by authors

Bibliometric analysis by scientific fields

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