Abstract
With the promotion of the term “ecological civilization” by the Chinese government, ecological civilization education (ECE) has gradually become popular in China. However, the concept of ECE remains unclear. In this commentary, we construct three triple-property models considering theories from environmental education (EE) to interpret ECE’s goals, program design perspectives, and learning outcomes. We suggest that the content of ECE can be replaced with the concept of EE, and that the three models implicit in EE can be utilized to establish an integrated landscape of ECE or EE per se.
Highlights
Ecological civilization is being increasingly popularized by the Chinese government, such that even the theme of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is “Ecological Civilization: Building a Shared Future for All
There has been a lot of practice, we find the concept of ecological civilization education (ECE)
In accordance with the spirit of ecology, which emphasizes relationships, we suggest that ecological civilization should be a process to form and enhance humans’ positive relationships with their environment, and that ECE should provide people with learning opportunities to facilitate these relationships
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. That is not to say that we agree with the anthropocentric implications in ecological civilization that only those relationships between humans and their environ ment are the focuses, that only the humans are the subjectivities, and that only those phe 2 of nomena identified by humans as “environmental problems that are confronting or wil confront humans” are worth considering and addressing. All these anthropocentric inter pretations of relationships are neglecting non-humanand organisms. We anticipate that EE can introduce existing educational and learning theories into the “emerging” field of ECE to facilitate corresponding practice
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