Ms Aneesa Jamal

Profile

Aneesa is a doctoral student in Education at the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia specializing in Curriculum and Instruction. Her research is using book-authoring as a path to place-based, decolonized climate literacy for middle and high schoolers in the global south. She has developed and pilot tested the Young Climate Authors program and an associated educator training program. She is a CEE Change Fellow with the North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) and a Fellow with the Center for Climate Literacy.

Orcid Profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2673-4024

Research

Publications

Jamal, A., Jamal, A., & Yusof, S. M. (2025). Anna/Akka Paulo Freire and other Green Heroes: How child-authors represent environmental educators in storybooks. Environmental Education Research, 31(9) 1818-1846 . https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2025.2491671

Jamal, A., Jamal, A., & Yusof, S. M. (2024). Young Authors & the Anthropocene: What story books reveal about the place-ecological meaning constructed by children of the global south. The Journal of Environmental Education, 55(6) 480-493. https://doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2024.2364190

Jamal, A., Jamal, A. M., & Yusof, S. M. (2023). Children as Earth Authors: A Story of Creativity, Metacognition and Motivation among Indian School Children. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 57(3), 450-465. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.591

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