Eileen Merritt

• Environmental Education
• STEM Education
• Digital Learning
• Environmental Service-Learning
• School Gardens

• Merritt, E.G., Weinberg, A., Lapan, C. & Rimm-Kaufman, S.E. (2024). Igniting kid power: The impact of environmental service-learning on elementary students’ awareness of energy problems and solutions. Energy Research & Social Science, 116, 103670.
• Rimm-Kaufman, S.E., Merritt, E.G. & Youngs, P. (2024). Integration of social and emotional learning and academics: Opportunities for synergy in mathematics and science instruction. In J Durlak, C. Domitrovich & J. Mahoney (Eds).  Handbook of Social and Emotional Learning: Research and Practice (Second Edition). New York: The Guilford Press.
• Merritt, E., Weinberg, A. & Archambault, L. (2023). Exploring energy through the lens of equity: Funds of knowledge conveyed through video-based discussion. International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 21, 2237-2260.
• Merritt, E.G.; Stern, M.J., Powell, R. B. & Frensley, B.T. (2023). Benefits of participation in a Community of Practice focused on evaluation and program improvement for environmental educators. Evaluation and Program Planning, 99, 99, 102317.
• Lapan, C., Rimm-Kaufman, & S.E., Merritt, E.G. (2022). Promoting fourth grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning. Applied Developmental Science, 28(1), 58-81.
• Merritt, E.G., Brousseau, J.J., Stern, M.J. & Hansen, L.J.  (2022). Walking the walk toward increasing access and reducing emissions: The promise and challenges of virtual climate adaptation convenings. Sustainability, 14, 12586. 
• Wakefield, W., Weinberg, A., Pretti, E.L., Merritt, E. & Trott, C. (2022).“When I act consciously, I can see a brighter world around me”: Preservice teacher readiness to support transformative sustainability learning for K-8 students. Environmental Education Research, 28(11), 1672-1690.
• Merritt, E.G., Stern, M.J., Powell, R.B. & Frensley, B.T. (2022). A systematic literature review to identify evidence-based principles to improve online environmental education. Environmental Education Research.
  
• Rimm-Kaufman, S., Merritt, E.G., Lapan, C., DeCoster, J., Hunt, A. & Bowers, N. (2021). Can service-learning boost science achievement, civic engagement and social skills? A randomized controlled trial of Connect Science. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 74.
  
• Merritt, E., Peterson, A., Evans, S. Marston, S. & Zuiker, S. (2021). Learning about culture and sustainable harvesting of native plants. Science and Children, 58(4) 69-73.
  
• Merritt. E.G., Harkins, T., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. (Winter, 2021). Empowering elementary students through environmental service-learning. Clearing Magazine, 8-11.
  
• Merritt, E.G., Stern, M.J., Powell, R.B. & Frensley, B.T. (2020). Promising principles to enhance distance learning in environmental education. Directions: Journal of the Association of Nature Center Administrators. Fall Issue.
• Merritt, E., & Bowers, N. (2020). Missed opportunities for observation-based ecology in the Next Generation Science Standards. Science Education, 104(4), 619-640.
• Brandt, J.O., Barth, M., Merritt, E., & Hale, A. (2020). A matter of connection: The 4 Cs of learning in pre-service teacher education for sustainability. Journal of Cleaner Production.
• Weinberg, A., Trott, C., Wakefield, W., Merritt, E. & Archambault, L. (2020). Looking inward, outward, and forward: Exploring the process of transformative learning in teacher education for a sustainable future. Sustainability Science.
  
• Merritt, E.G. & Bowers, N. (2019). Cultivating community through a Chefs in the Garden program. Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly, VI (3), 56-65.
• Merritt, E., Bowers, N., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. (2019). Making connections: Elementary students’ ideas about electricity and energy resources. Renewable Energy, 138, 1078-1086.
• Merritt, E., Hale, A & Archambault, L. (2019). Changes in pre-service teachers’ values, sense of agency, motivation and consumption practices: A case study of an Education for Sustainability Course. Sustainability, 11, 155, 1-15.
  
• Papenfuss, J., Merritt, E., Manuel-Navarrete, D., Cloutier, S. & Eckard, B. (2019). Interacting pedagogies: A review and framework for sustainability education. Journal of Sustainability Education, 20.
• Merritt, E.G., Archambault, L. & Hale, A.E. (2018). Sustainability education in elementary classrooms: Reported practices of alumni from a pre-service teacher course. Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 9(1), 18-31.
• Archambault, L., Merritt, E. & Hale, A. (2018). Breaking through barriers: Using the sustainability education framework for teachers to build sustainability literacy in K-12 classrooms. Green Schools Catalyst Quarterly, Vol. 2, 62-71.
  
• Merritt, E.G. (2017). Going outdoors: a natural antidote for attention fatigue? Phi Delta Kappan. 99(2).
• Merritt, E.G., Rates, C., Greiner, J., Baroody, A., & Rimm-Kaufman, S. (2017). “We need trees to line the river to save our little friends”: Environmental literacy development through service-learning. Children, Youth and Environments, 27(1), 67-90.
• Merritt, E. (2016). Time for teacher learning, planning critical for school reform. Phi Delta Kappan. 98(4), 31-36.
   

Dr. Eileen Merritt - Vita