This journal is managed and published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the owners, Australian Association for Environmental Education.

AJEE has an international editorial executive and editorial board. We meet regularly to refine the aims and scope of the journal, ensuring that our journal remains contemporary and contributes to, and extends, the field of environmental educational research and practice.

One of the aims of AJEE is to provide a community where those interested in environmental education find opportunity to share their research and ideas through collegial communications and academic publications. Our journal, journal website, and social media generate discussion and develop our community and environmental education practice. AJEE provides opportunities for our community to share research and ideas and to stimulate debate, discussion, and exploration. 

AJEE acknowledges all Indigenous peoples and we pay respects to all First Nations people around the world, and their elders past, present, and emerging. We welcome scholarship that seeks to decolonise environmental education and that promotes First Nations justice in environmental education. 

AJEE accepts the following manuscripts: articles, communications, thesis and report synopses, and reviews of books and other works. To submit a manuscript please review the author Instructions.

AJEE invites scholars to submit a proposal to guest edit a special issue. The purpose of a special issue is to provide a collection of articles in a specific area of research that will be of high interest to our readers. A special issue should be timely, cutting-edge, and distinctive.

History

AJEE was established by the Australian Association of Environmental Education (AAEE) and launched in July 1984 (volume 1, issue 1 with R.W. Carter as Editor).

The journal was an annual publication, occasionally publishing more than one issue, until 2011 when 2 issues became standard. In 2016 the journal moved to 3 issues per year/volume and then in 2022 moved to 4 issues per year/volume. In January 2023, the journal flipped to full open access.

For the first 24 years AJEE was published in-house by AAEE. In 2011 AJEE was hosted by the Australian Academic Press and from 2011 has been hosted by Cambridge University Press.

AJEE Editors:

• Bill Carter -1984-1986 (Vol 1/1, Vol 1/2, Vol 2)
• Ian Robottom - 1987-1995 (Vols 3-11)
• Richard Smith - 1996-1998 (Vols 12-14)
• Annette Gough and Noel Gough - 1999-2002 (Vols 15-18)
• Roy Ballantyne and Jo-Anne Ferreira - 2003-2004 (Vols 19-20)
• Jo-Anne Ferreira and Roy Ballantyne - 2005-2007 (Vols 21-23)
• Jo-Anne Ferreira - 2008-2009 (Vols 24-25)
• Amy Cutter Mackenzie-Knowles and Phillip Payne (2010)
• Amy Cutter Mackenzie-Knowles (2010-2018) (Vols 26-34/3)
• Amy Cutter Mackenzie-Knowles and Karen Malone (2019-2020) (Vol 35/1 - 36/1)
• Amy Cutter Mackenzie-Knowles (2020-2021) (Vols 36/2-37/2)
• Peta White (2021-) (Vols 37/3 - )

See editorial for the 30th Anniversary issue (2014)
Cutter-Mackenzie, A., Gough, A., Gough, N., & Whitehouse, H. (2014). Opening to the Australian Journal of Environmental Education Special 30-Year Anniversary Issue. Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 30(1), V-Vi. doi:10.1017/aee.2014.12

Open Access

AJEE became a Gold Open Access journal as of Volume 39 (2023).