SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education

Saari, M. H. (2025). Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education. Environmental Education Research, 31(8), 1674–1690. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2475150

Does sustainability really start with teachers? Reflections on integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Namibia and Finland

Saari, M. H., Poulton-Busler, R., & Vladimirova, A. (2024). Does sustainability really start with teachers? Reflections on integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Namibia and Finland. The Journal of Environmental Education, 55(6), 494–508. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2024.2375210

ANIMALS AS STAKEHOLDERS IN EDUCATION: TOWARDS AN EDUCATIONAL REFORM FOR INTERSPECIES SUSTAINABILITY

Saarim M.H. (2021) A doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Oulu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Sciences).

PUBLICATIONS summary

10 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 peer-reviewed book chapters, 1 co-authored book, 1 educator’s toolkit, 9 publications intended for public/professional audience, 1 PhD thesis, 2 Master’s theses. Including:

Castellazzi, E., Hakkarainen, V., Saari, M.H., & Raymond, C. M. (2025). Barriers and Enablers of Interdisciplinary Climate Education: Insights from Secondary Teachers. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 1–18.

Saari, M. H. (2025). Crafting palettes of potential for a multispecies justice-oriented education. Environmental Education Research, 31(8), 1674–1690.

Raymond, C., Rautio, P., Fagerholm, N., Aaltonen, V.A., Andersson, E., Celermajer, D., Christie, H., Saari, M.H., Mishra, H.S., Lechner, A.M., Pinto, M.P., Schlosberg, D. (2025). Applying multispecies justice in nature-based solutions: tensions and prospects. npj Urban Sustain 5, 2.

Saari, M.H. (2024). A Multispecies Justice Approach to Climate Change Education. In L. Griffin, L. Ropartz, S. Bannister & A. Merrick (Eds.) Climate Change Education Research Collection. International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO). Commissioned Internal Report.

Tammi, T., Hohti, R., & Saari, M.H. (2024). Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1–14.

Saari, M. H., Poulton-Busler, R., & Vladimirova, A. (2024). Does sustainability really start with teachers? Reflections on integrating environmental education in pre-service teacher education in Namibia and Finland. The Journal of Environmental Education, 1–15.

Kervinen, A., Hohti, R., Rautio, P., Saari, M.H., Tammi, T., Aivelo, T. (2024). Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people. Environmental Education Research.

Saari, M.H., Venâncio, C. & Policarpo, V. (2022) Who is your CLAN? A toolkit for exploring human-animal relations in multispecies homes and communities. / Quem é o teu CLAN? Um toolkit para explorar as relações humano-animais em lares e comunidades multi-espécie.

Rautio, P., Tammi, T., Aivelo, T., Hohti, R., Kervinen, A., Saari, M.H. (2022). “For whom? By whom?” Critical perspectives of participation in ecological citizen science. Cult Stud of Sci Educ 17, 765-793.

Saari, M.H. (2021) Animals as stakeholders in education: towards an educational reform for interspecies sustainability, A doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Oulu for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Sciences).

Saari, M.H. (2020) Näkymättömistä näkyviksi: eläimet tulevaisuuden koulujärjestelmässä [From invisible to visible: animals in future schools]. In B. Wahlberg & E. Aaltola (Eds.) Me & Muut Eläimet: Uusi Maailmanjärjestys [Other animals and us: towards a new world order], Tampere: Vastapaino, 121–138.

Saari, M.H. (2018) Re-imagining the human-nonhuman animal relationship through humane education. In A. Cutter-Mackenzie, K. Malone, E. Barrat Hacking (Eds.) International Research Handbook on ChildhoodNature: Assemblages of Childhood and Nature Research, Springer, 1-11.