# Exploration and Analysis of Educational History from the Perspective of Educational Environmental History and Environmental History

Authors: Wei Li; Li Li
Journal: Journal of Environmental and Public Health
 (2022)

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## Abstract

The emergence of environmental historiography, for the first time, organically combined the history of the environment and human history and began to pay attention to the close relationship between human social changes and environmental changes. This paper explores the impact of environmental history on education from the perspective of environmental history. This paper explores and analyzes the history of the educational environment from the perspective of environmental history and studies the laws and characteristics behind the evolution of the relationship between education and environment. This paper analyzes the influence of environmental history on the three views of college students under environmental education. Further analysis of educational environmental history is improved to improve the three views of college students and promote the social development of research significance. The study of educational environmental history is of great significance to enlarge the field of educational history research, enrich the content of educational history research, and perfect the discipline construction of educational history. At the same time, the environmental perspective and ecological consciousness of educational environmental history research are the embodiment and adherence of Marxist historical materialism and environmental view.


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## Body

## 1. Introduction

Since the emergence of environmental historiography, human beings have gradually deepened their cognition and transformation of the world, and the world has formed a whole. The teaching of history is the elaboration and analysis of this process [1]. At present, most of the textbooks of general history in domestic colleges and universities focus on traditional political, economic, cultural, and military history [2]. Environmental degradation in the 1950s and 1960s led to the emergence of the environmental protection movement in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, which promoted the emergence and development of environmental history [3]. In the late 20th century, environmental history emerged in the west, and some countries successively carried out environmental history teaching and literacy education courses in universities. However, there is no corresponding content update in history textbooks in Chinese universities [4]. At present, with the increase in population, the global atmosphere is warming, the sea level is rising, extreme weather is emerging one after another, and environmental pollution is becoming increasingly serious, especially in the outbreak of COVID-19 [5]. Therefore, college teachers should do a good job in the education of students, permeate and emphasize the concept of love and protection of nature, and make contributions to the improvement of the world environment [6].Environmental education is a kind of educational activity that arose in Western countries in the 1960s and 1970s. We advocate paying attention to nature and the environment, starting from youth education, and improving the environmental literacy and ecological awareness of the educated through practical activities [7]. Environmental education is developed under the background of Western countries’ management of the environmental crisis, and its rise was closely related to the serious environmental pollution problems faced by Western countries in the 20th century. Under the pressure of an increasingly severe environmental crisis, environmental education has gradually become the key content of education in Western countries [8]. Environmental education has become an effective means to arouse public environmental awareness and stimulate public environmental protection [9]. At present, there is no universally accepted academic definition of environmental education. In addition to educating people to protect the core of the natural ecological environment on which human beings depend, it also includes the extension of maintaining a stable organic social environment [10]. Its content involves many subjects such as pedagogy, ecology, sociology, environmental aesthetics, environmental philosophy, and environmental ethics, with strong comprehensiveness of subjects, pertinence of problems, and practicality of operation.As for environmental education, some scholars have summarized and sorted out a series of theoretical thoughts closely related to environmental education [11]. Through carding philosophy and educational thoughts, it is not difficult to find that many forward-looking ideas and reflections related to environmental education are worth learning [12]. These valuable theoretical resources can guide the development of environmental education in today’s era.The philosophical thoughts of environmental education can provide basic philosophical principles for environmental education and avoid the dilemma that environmental education can only be based on common sense [13]. Comparatively, domestic scholars have not paid enough attention to the close relationship between environmental education philosophy and education. The analysis of environmental education is still weak, and there is no systematic and in-depth study on this problem. This paper attempts to explore Dewey’s thought of environmental education through the analysis of geography and history education [14]. It is helpful for educators to thoroughly understand the essence of environmental education and firmly grasp its philosophical foundation, so as to develop environmental education better [15].Environment is the common basis and home for human beings and other living things to survive and develop [16]. For hundreds of millions of years, the Earth’s environment has not only changed under the influence of natural and man-made factors but also entered into human society, politics, economy, culture, life, and other fields [17]. History has long been human-centric, with little regard for the environment or other species. It was not until the emergence of environmental historiography that it first organically combined the history of the environment with the history of human beings and began to pay attention to the close relationship between the changes in human society and the changes in the external environment [18].Education, as an important activity of human society and a major component of human culture, is inextricably linked with the environment [19]. What are the effects of environmental change, technological innovation, cultural production, and the relationship between human beings and other living things on educational ideas, activities, and institutions? How did people in history pass on their perceptions of the environment to future generations through education? How does this knowledge affect future generations’ adaptation and the use of the environment? How has education historically responded to environmental change or to environmental problems such as floods, droughts, diseases, and plagues? Do these measures have any warning and reference for current environmental education and sustainable development education? Such questions are worthy of scholarly inquiry [20]. It is not only necessary but also urgent to bring the environment into the scope of investigation of the history of education and to pay attention to the interactive relationship between education and the environment in history, no matter from the perspective of expanding the field of discipline or practical guidance [21]. This paper aims to explore the basic connotation, research content, theoretical methods, and value significance of the history of the educational environment, which thus lays a foundation for better research on educational environmental history.This paper consists of five main parts: The first part is Introduction; the second part is State of the Art; the third part is Methodology; the fourth part is Result Analysis and Discussion; and the fifth part is Conclusion.


## 2. State of the Art

### 2.1. History of Education

The history of education is the history of education created and practiced by people, the history of education recorded and described by people, the history of education thought and studied by people, and the history of education that people consciously and systematically ponder and study. History of education is a subject with a spiritual edifying function. It helps students better understand people, ideas, cultures, and traditions through understanding the historical process of educational development of other countries and nations, thus providing help for the formation of a broad global and world vision.The history of education includes three levels: The first level refers to the history of education as “historical facts”; that is, all kinds of events related to education happened in the past. The second level refers to the history of education as “historical materials,” which refers to the past knowledge about education that has been recorded in various forms, that is, the past of education that has disappeared but has not disappeared. The third level refers to the history of education as an academic research field, which refers to the current researchers’ understanding and narration of various education-related events in the past.For the researchers of the history of vocational education, the so-called history of education is to construct the history of education of the third level based on the history of education of the second level. The researcher’s “lofty ideal” is to make the educational history of the third level as close as possible to that of the first level. This is the whole purpose and core mission of the history of education research.Yet for the average person or most teachers, the history of the first and second levels of education is of little value. They do not necessarily have the interest or need to understand the history of education at these two levels. What they are exposed to is mostly the use of educational history. History of education is used for teaching, propaganda, providing background information for practical research of education, summarizing historical laws, and even for entertainment and consumption. The history of applied education can make necessary choices and trade-offs according to the actual needs. However, this kind of choice and trade-off is not distortion, and distortion, authenticity, and accuracy are still its criterion.In a long period of time, restricted by historical, political, and realistic factors, the study of educational history appeared like the phenomenon of putting the cart before the horse. We regard the application of educational history, an adjunct of the study of educational history, as the whole purpose of the study, and judge the value of the study of educational history on this basis, but we do not analyze the essence of the study of educational history. The application of educational history needs to be fully studied. For several questions such as what if we research on educational history is, what are its properties and characteristics, and its value and significance, and where the problems such as not fully understanding and grasp, and is there much talk about the law of education history summary and grasp, education history enlightenment, and reference for education reality, the result must be education using the chaos and blind, and short-sighted and utility laws in the study of educational history.


### 2.2. Environmental Education

For environmental education, extensive and profound philosophical thoughts should originate from life and ultimately point to life. Therefore, the thought of environmental education is fully embodied in the later practice and development. The empirical educational view of environmental education, the consciousness of the big environment, the description of the importance of the natural environment represented by geography and the social environment represented by history, and the inextricable and interdependent relationship between the two have all become the typical issues concerned by environmental education. The subsequent development of environmental education has been proved by a large number of educational practices.The purpose of environmental education is to improve students’ understanding and adaptation to both natural environment and social environment. At the beginning of its development, environmental education attaches great importance to enriching the connotation of “environment.” We should focus on the natural environment, not just the natural environment but also the social environment. Environment not only means the objective things around human beings but also refers to the various relations that play a role in human production and life. Although such relations are invisible and intangible, they play a non-negligible role in human survival and development.In practice, environmental education attaches importance to infiltration education of discipline. No separate courses of environmental education should be set up in subject teaching and education. It is necessary to carry out infiltration education and integrate the connotation of environmental education with various disciplines. We should naturally acquire environment-related knowledge and skills through disciplinary penetration. Penetrative environmental education is closely related to Dewey’s empiricism. The content of environmental education is not independent, but integrated with various disciplines, not divorced from the actual life experience can be geography, history, and environmental education content organically combined. In this case, the teacher’s knowledge of various subjects can be organically combined with the environment-related insights gained by students through experience. In this way, environmental education comes into play naturally.Environmental education emphasizes interdisciplinary cooperation between the humanities and the sciences. Engel in Harvard University believes that environmental education for both human beings and the Earth must be the scientific, social, and cultural field of vision; we should know how to deal with the environment and how to do to care for the environment, which is not only a problem facing humanity and literature, but it also involves the social sciences and is more closely associated with cognitive science and technology innovation. The humanities and the sciences are not independent of each other. They face the same theme of human union but with different emphases. At present, environmental science knowledge and environmental ethics occupy an important position in environmental education. Environmental science knowledge focuses on understanding the environment and developing the ability to solve environmental problems. Environmental ethics focuses on adjusting the relationship between human beings and nature from the perspective of values and helps to arouse human beings’ feelings of cherishing and protecting the environment.Environmental education in addition to school environmental education, outside school environmental experience, is also an indispensable part. Compared with school environmental education, which mainly focuses on teaching environmental knowledge, the off-campus environmental experience focuses on the practice of knowledge. In Canada, some primary and secondary schools take environmental protection centers outside schools as an important front for environmental education, implement environmental education outside schools in combination with in-school education, use outdoor practice to help students understand the relationship between man and nature, and practice the concepts learned in class. Established more than 50 years ago, the Toronto regional environmental protection center in Ontario, Canada, is an important base for environmental education in the region. The Centre operates eight program centers that provide curriculum-based programs and receive more than 185,000 environmental learners each year. To the student, what is learned in the classroom is a lifeless, dry argument unless filtered through practical experience. And when the knowledge learned in class is combined with the live experience, the dull knowledge immediately becomes vivid, and the students’ mind will be full of vitality.In fact, as early as the founding of experimental schools, we can see the figure of environmental experience. The students grow crops on reclaimed land. Through such gardening activities, students learn about the natural environment such as soil chemistry and the relationship between plants and the weather. More importantly, students learn about the ways in which agricultural activities are organized more efficiently, which is a very important knowledge of the social environment in the history of human development.Through the experience of the off-campus environment, daily experience expands its meaning because it is related to the knowledge learned, and the things learned become vibrant and tangible because they are directly involved in the current activities. The vitality of practice is essential to the pursuit of new knowledge and new experiences. Therefore, the enthusiasm of students will greatly increase, and then, the thirst for knowledge in the classroom will greatly increase, and the desire to actively acquire new knowledge will also increase.Since the middle and late 20th century, human society has stepped into a period of rapid development and the rapid improvement of the economic level at the expense of the ecological environment; industrial pollution has brought serious consequences and even threatened the survival of human beings. At such a historical juncture, people must begin to pay attention to environmental protection and strengthen environmental care. For the personnel engaged in education, if the essence of environmental education cannot be grasped, the application of the concept in practice is prone to deviation. And the environmental education thought can provide us with the theory essence that is easy to grasp. Deeply rooted in people’s daily experience, environmental education thought directly reaches the core problem of environmental education; it brings us a new concept and a new practice mode; this concept and mode come not only from practice but also to practice. The discussion is aimed at the current human situation, and it is such ideas and practices that make environmental education still out of date today.Since the 1970s, although some progress has been made in China’s environmental education, due to the lag of theoretical research and other reasons, environmental education has not been fully developed, let alone achieved fruitful results. Some education experts believe that in order to solve this problem, we should first deepen the research on major theoretical issues of environmental education, and should have an international perspective and draw on international wisdom.


## 2.1. History of Education

The history of education is the history of education created and practiced by people, the history of education recorded and described by people, the history of education thought and studied by people, and the history of education that people consciously and systematically ponder and study. History of education is a subject with a spiritual edifying function. It helps students better understand people, ideas, cultures, and traditions through understanding the historical process of educational development of other countries and nations, thus providing help for the formation of a broad global and world vision.The history of education includes three levels: The first level refers to the history of education as “historical facts”; that is, all kinds of events related to education happened in the past. The second level refers to the history of education as “historical materials,” which refers to the past knowledge about education that has been recorded in various forms, that is, the past of education that has disappeared but has not disappeared. The third level refers to the history of education as an academic research field, which refers to the current researchers’ understanding and narration of various education-related events in the past.For the researchers of the history of vocational education, the so-called history of education is to construct the history of education of the third level based on the history of education of the second level. The researcher’s “lofty ideal” is to make the educational history of the third level as close as possible to that of the first level. This is the whole purpose and core mission of the history of education research.Yet for the average person or most teachers, the history of the first and second levels of education is of little value. They do not necessarily have the interest or need to understand the history of education at these two levels. What they are exposed to is mostly the use of educational history. History of education is used for teaching, propaganda, providing background information for practical research of education, summarizing historical laws, and even for entertainment and consumption. The history of applied education can make necessary choices and trade-offs according to the actual needs. However, this kind of choice and trade-off is not distortion, and distortion, authenticity, and accuracy are still its criterion.In a long period of time, restricted by historical, political, and realistic factors, the study of educational history appeared like the phenomenon of putting the cart before the horse. We regard the application of educational history, an adjunct of the study of educational history, as the whole purpose of the study, and judge the value of the study of educational history on this basis, but we do not analyze the essence of the study of educational history. The application of educational history needs to be fully studied. For several questions such as what if we research on educational history is, what are its properties and characteristics, and its value and significance, and where the problems such as not fully understanding and grasp, and is there much talk about the law of education history summary and grasp, education history enlightenment, and reference for education reality, the result must be education using the chaos and blind, and short-sighted and utility laws in the study of educational history.


## 2.2. Environmental Education

For environmental education, extensive and profound philosophical thoughts should originate from life and ultimately point to life. Therefore, the thought of environmental education is fully embodied in the later practice and development. The empirical educational view of environmental education, the consciousness of the big environment, the description of the importance of the natural environment represented by geography and the social environment represented by history, and the inextricable and interdependent relationship between the two have all become the typical issues concerned by environmental education. The subsequent development of environmental education has been proved by a large number of educational practices.The purpose of environmental education is to improve students’ understanding and adaptation to both natural environment and social environment. At the beginning of its development, environmental education attaches great importance to enriching the connotation of “environment.” We should focus on the natural environment, not just the natural environment but also the social environment. Environment not only means the objective things around human beings but also refers to the various relations that play a role in human production and life. Although such relations are invisible and intangible, they play a non-negligible role in human survival and development.In practice, environmental education attaches importance to infiltration education of discipline. No separate courses of environmental education should be set up in subject teaching and education. It is necessary to carry out infiltration education and integrate the connotation of environmental education with various disciplines. We should naturally acquire environment-related knowledge and skills through disciplinary penetration. Penetrative environmental education is closely related to Dewey’s empiricism. The content of environmental education is not independent, but integrated with various disciplines, not divorced from the actual life experience can be geography, history, and environmental education content organically combined. In this case, the teacher’s knowledge of various subjects can be organically combined with the environment-related insights gained by students through experience. In this way, environmental education comes into play naturally.Environmental education emphasizes interdisciplinary cooperation between the humanities and the sciences. Engel in Harvard University believes that environmental education for both human beings and the Earth must be the scientific, social, and cultural field of vision; we should know how to deal with the environment and how to do to care for the environment, which is not only a problem facing humanity and literature, but it also involves the social sciences and is more closely associated with cognitive science and technology innovation. The humanities and the sciences are not independent of each other. They face the same theme of human union but with different emphases. At present, environmental science knowledge and environmental ethics occupy an important position in environmental education. Environmental science knowledge focuses on understanding the environment and developing the ability to solve environmental problems. Environmental ethics focuses on adjusting the relationship between human beings and nature from the perspective of values and helps to arouse human beings’ feelings of cherishing and protecting the environment.Environmental education in addition to school environmental education, outside school environmental experience, is also an indispensable part. Compared with school environmental education, which mainly focuses on teaching environmental knowledge, the off-campus environmental experience focuses on the practice of knowledge. In Canada, some primary and secondary schools take environmental protection centers outside schools as an important front for environmental education, implement environmental education outside schools in combination with in-school education, use outdoor practice to help students understand the relationship between man and nature, and practice the concepts learned in class. Established more than 50 years ago, the Toronto regional environmental protection center in Ontario, Canada, is an important base for environmental education in the region. The Centre operates eight program centers that provide curriculum-based programs and receive more than 185,000 environmental learners each year. To the student, what is learned in the classroom is a lifeless, dry argument unless filtered through practical experience. And when the knowledge learned in class is combined with the live experience, the dull knowledge immediately becomes vivid, and the students’ mind will be full of vitality.In fact, as early as the founding of experimental schools, we can see the figure of environmental experience. The students grow crops on reclaimed land. Through such gardening activities, students learn about the natural environment such as soil chemistry and the relationship between plants and the weather. More importantly, students learn about the ways in which agricultural activities are organized more efficiently, which is a very important knowledge of the social environment in the history of human development.Through the experience of the off-campus environment, daily experience expands its meaning because it is related to the knowledge learned, and the things learned become vibrant and tangible because they are directly involved in the current activities. The vitality of practice is essential to the pursuit of new knowledge and new experiences. Therefore, the enthusiasm of students will greatly increase, and then, the thirst for knowledge in the classroom will greatly increase, and the desire to actively acquire new knowledge will also increase.Since the middle and late 20th century, human society has stepped into a period of rapid development and the rapid improvement of the economic level at the expense of the ecological environment; industrial pollution has brought serious consequences and even threatened the survival of human beings. At such a historical juncture, people must begin to pay attention to environmental protection and strengthen environmental care. For the personnel engaged in education, if the essence of environmental education cannot be grasped, the application of the concept in practice is prone to deviation. And the environmental education thought can provide us with the theory essence that is easy to grasp. Deeply rooted in people’s daily experience, environmental education thought directly reaches the core problem of environmental education; it brings us a new concept and a new practice mode; this concept and mode come not only from practice but also to practice. The discussion is aimed at the current human situation, and it is such ideas and practices that make environmental education still out of date today.Since the 1970s, although some progress has been made in China’s environmental education, due to the lag of theoretical research and other reasons, environmental education has not been fully developed, let alone achieved fruitful results. Some education experts believe that in order to solve this problem, we should first deepen the research on major theoretical issues of environmental education, and should have an international perspective and draw on international wisdom.


## 3. Methodology

There are a large number of college students in colleges and universities. Environmental education is particularly important in college students’ life and study. College students have a strong thirst for knowledge and are easy to accept new things. Besides, their three views have not been fully formed and are easily influenced by environmental history.


### 3.1. Impact of Environmental History on Education

In this random sampling survey, there were 213 male students and 255 female students. Among them, 114 are junior college students, 246 are undergraduate students, and 108 are graduate students. Among the political status of college students, democratic parties account for the least proportion, followed by the masses, followed by communist party members, as shown in Table1.Table 1
Basic composition of the sample.
VariableVariable meshEffective numberEffective percentageGenderMale21345.5%Female25554.5%Political landscapeThe Chinese communist party member9420.0%The communist youth league35074.8%The crowd224.7%The democratic parties20.5%Record of formal schoolingSpecialized subject11424.3%Undergraduate course24652.6%Postgraduate and above10823.1%The discipline natureSection29563.0%Institute of class13128.0%Other429.0%The research in Figure1 is to find out college students’ understanding of environmental history: 3.8% of college students said they knew it very well; 20.10% of college students said they knew better; 43.80% of college students said they did not know much about it; and 32.30% of college students said they did not understand. It can be seen from Figure 1 that the recognition rate of environmental history among college students is not very high, and many college students do not understand it.Figure 1
College students’ understanding of environmental history.


#### 3.1.1. Influence on College Students’ View of History

The view of history is the general and fundamental view of history. Figure2 is aimed at the question “Does environmental history have an impact on students’ view of history in education.” 72.4% of college students believe that there is a close relationship between the two and that the formation of college students’ view of history is influenced by environmental history in the process of education. 23.2 percent of college students may have a connection. A small number of college students think there is no necessary connection between the two. It can be seen from the survey results that the vast majority of college students have a clear understanding of environmental history and can make a clear judgment.Figure 2
Investigation into the influence of environmental history on students’ view of history in education.Do you think education should be combined with historical environment? The results of this survey are shown in Figure3: 42.6% of college students believe that environmental education can guarantee the correct development of college students’ view of history; 23.8% of college students think adding environmental education may be beneficial; 26.3% of college students thought it was unclear; and 7.3% of college students cannot add it, thinking it is not meaningful. It can be seen that the vast majority of students hold positive views on environmental education. Yet, there are still some college students who cannot accurately grasp. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen college students’ cognition of environmental education’s view of history.Figure 3
Investigation into the idea of combining education with historical environment.In addition, some scholars point out that “we should fully realize the important role of environmental education in the long history and realize the limitation of heroic historical view” in the research on the influence of environmental history on historical view. By comparing the investigation and research of Chongqing university students on the theory of historical principal motive force, the author finds that most students can realize the importance of the people, while some students cannot correctly understand the important role of environmental education in history. Nowadays, with the complexity of environmental history, college students’ views on history are also diverse. Most college students can resist pressure and public opinion and stick to a correct view of history. However, some college students will be influenced by environmental history and cannot adhere to a scientific view of history. A small number of college students are affected by the incorrect environmental history, which affects the correct view of history.


#### 3.1.2. Influence on College Students’ Values

Values affect the value orientation of our country and even the whole nation. College students generally have a curiosity mentality and are easily interested in new ideas that are different from traditional ones. However, as the values of college students have not been formed, they are easily induced by bad ideas.In Figure4, the question “What is the impact of environmental history on college students’ values in the education process?” is investigated: 5.8% of college students believe that values are completely influenced by the environment; nearly 50% of college students’ values are highly likely to be affected by the environment; 43.9% of them say that their values may not be affected by the environment; and very few of them think that their values are not affected by the environment at all.Figure 4
Influence of environmental history on college students’ values in the process of education.Environmental history has a great influence on education and further on students’ values. Different educational environments have great differences in values. In Figure5, the question “Which is more beneficial to shaping values, school education, or family education?” is investigated: 38.9 percent of college students think the educational environment is more favorable; 56.3% of college students think family education has a great influence on their values; and 4.8 percent said they could not tell.Figure 5
Which is better for shaping values, schooling, or home schooling?In Figure6, the question “Which is the greater influence of theoretical education or practical education on values?” is investigated; 36.0 percent of college students think theoretical education has a great influence. 19.0% of college students should be influenced by practical education. 24.0% of college students think both theoretical education and practical education are very important. 20.0% of college students said they were not clear about the relationship between them.Figure 6
Influence of theoretical education and practical education on values.


#### 3.1.3. Influence on College Students’ Political Views

Political view refers to people’s general views and views on current national politics, covering the value selection and behavioral direction of political subjects. Adhering to the correct political outlook is conducive to social members’ understanding of the country, to the implementation of major national policies, and to the improvement of national governance and social governance capacity. Analysis of the impact of environmental history on the political education of college students is performed. In Figure7, the question “What do you think of the impact of environmental history on college students’ political outlook?” is investigated: 56.8% of college students believe that environmental history is closely related to political education and that we should insist on the political education of students and attach great importance to the influence of environmental history; 19.3% of college students may have related to environmental history and political education; and 23.9% of college students disagree and think there is no relationship between the two. Most students have a clear understanding of political views. Political education should be further optimized with the influence of environmental history. Few believe that the shaping of political views has nothing to do with environmental history.Figure 7
Influence of environmental history on college students’ political outlook.In Figure8, the question. “How to shape a better political view by combining environmental education?” is investigated: 59.8% of college students said that political views are closely related to environmental history, and they should receive good environmental education to strengthen their political stance; 28.3% of college students believe that there are many factors influencing their political views, not just environmental education; and 11.9% of college students said they were not sure.Figure 8
Can environmental education shape a better political outlook?Practical experience tells us that we should always adhere to our political beliefs and strive for our country and people, and rigorously study correct environmental history.


#### 3.1.4. Influence on College Students’ Inheritance of Traditional Culture

Some scholars point out that traditional culture is a time-tested excellent culture that includes ethics and morality. It is not achieved overnight, but through the baptism of years, the test of practice is just handed down. The traditional Chinese culture has passed the test of history and is the essence of the nation. We should continue to learn its essence and pass it on from generation to generation. Obviously, wrong environmental history can take advantage of college students’ curiosity, break history, and mislead people’s eyes. If allowed to develop willfully, it will erode the formation of three views of college students, shake their political ideals and beliefs, and affect the inheritance of Chinese culture, and the consequences are unimaginable.


### 3.2. Analysis of the Causes of Environmental History Affecting Education

Education is influenced by environmental history in various aspects, and the reasons are also varied, mainly reflected in the following points:


#### 3.2.1. Environmental History

Firstly, environmental history is permeable, affecting our lives every moment. Secondly, environmental history has secrecy. Environmental history expands the influence of its own ideas through academic journals, seminars, books, and other forms, and spreads its own ideas secretly by means of academic film and television media, which are relatively natural.


#### 3.2.2. Cognitive Ability of College Students

However, college students’ understanding of environmental history is still in the primary stage, and they lack the ability of theoretical analysis, so they cannot use historical materialism to analyze problems. The lack of cognitive ability of college students leads to the influence of environmental history on college students’ ideological tendency and behavior to varying degrees. Due to the weakness of basic theoretical knowledge and the lack of rational analysis ability, college students are often affected by the wrong remarks, which poses a certain degree of challenge to their unformed world outlook, outlook on life, and values.


#### 3.2.3. Environmental Changes at Home and Abroad

The environmental history of different regions varies greatly due to their own historical reasons, but with the in-depth development of globalization, Western culture and Western values, especially works advocating Western system concepts, flow into China. They are active in China’s politics, culture, academic research, and other fields, imperceptibly affecting the people, especially college students. In the new historical period, the harmonious relationship between environmental histories makes some wrong thoughts and remarks mixed in, and gives rise to a series of wrong theories. College students are vulnerable to the confusion of well-packaged social trends of thought due to their unsophisticated experience in the world, which leads to untruth-based historical cognition and affects the shaping of college students’ historical views.


#### 3.2.4. Education and Teaching in Colleges and Universities

College students are the hope of the country, the future of the nation, and the main force of the country’s future social development. Good history education is to adjust the behavior of college students, in order to achieve the purpose of the high social identity of college students. Environmental education in schools plays a decisive role in helping students establish the correct three views. The author conducted an investigation on the effect of higher education. As shown in Figure9, 45.2% of college students believe that the education effect of their colleges and universities is remarkable. 43.5% of college students think the education in their colleges and universities is effective, but the effect is just average. However, 11.3% of college students think their education is ineffective.Figure 9
Effect of higher education is investigated.


#### 3.2.5. Influence of Online Social Media

With the continuous development of new online social media, there are inevitably some problems. The improper development of network social media will have a very bad influence on the thoughts of college students and will inevitably hinder the progress of society. At the same time, online social media does not match relevant laws and regulations, resulting in the chaos of online information.As shown in Figure10, the question “What are your main channels for obtaining information?” is investigated: 49.8% of students use microblog, We Chat, forums, and other ways to get information; 16.7% students get the information they need through classroom teaching; 13.3% of students obtain relevant information through paper reading materials; 10.4% of the students obtained political information and historical knowledge through special lectures; and 9.8% of the students got to know it through movies and TV plays.Figure 10
Access to information.It can be seen that there are various channels for college students to obtain information, but they mainly obtain historical knowledge and political information through network social media. A good network environment for college students to obtain information optimization and about education environment has a great impact.


## 3.1. Impact of Environmental History on Education

In this random sampling survey, there were 213 male students and 255 female students. Among them, 114 are junior college students, 246 are undergraduate students, and 108 are graduate students. Among the political status of college students, democratic parties account for the least proportion, followed by the masses, followed by communist party members, as shown in Table1.Table 1
Basic composition of the sample.
VariableVariable meshEffective numberEffective percentageGenderMale21345.5%Female25554.5%Political landscapeThe Chinese communist party member9420.0%The communist youth league35074.8%The crowd224.7%The democratic parties20.5%Record of formal schoolingSpecialized subject11424.3%Undergraduate course24652.6%Postgraduate and above10823.1%The discipline natureSection29563.0%Institute of class13128.0%Other429.0%The research in Figure1 is to find out college students’ understanding of environmental history: 3.8% of college students said they knew it very well; 20.10% of college students said they knew better; 43.80% of college students said they did not know much about it; and 32.30% of college students said they did not understand. It can be seen from Figure 1 that the recognition rate of environmental history among college students is not very high, and many college students do not understand it.Figure 1
College students’ understanding of environmental history.


### 3.1.1. Influence on College Students’ View of History

The view of history is the general and fundamental view of history. Figure2 is aimed at the question “Does environmental history have an impact on students’ view of history in education.” 72.4% of college students believe that there is a close relationship between the two and that the formation of college students’ view of history is influenced by environmental history in the process of education. 23.2 percent of college students may have a connection. A small number of college students think there is no necessary connection between the two. It can be seen from the survey results that the vast majority of college students have a clear understanding of environmental history and can make a clear judgment.Figure 2
Investigation into the influence of environmental history on students’ view of history in education.Do you think education should be combined with historical environment? The results of this survey are shown in Figure3: 42.6% of college students believe that environmental education can guarantee the correct development of college students’ view of history; 23.8% of college students think adding environmental education may be beneficial; 26.3% of college students thought it was unclear; and 7.3% of college students cannot add it, thinking it is not meaningful. It can be seen that the vast majority of students hold positive views on environmental education. Yet, there are still some college students who cannot accurately grasp. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen college students’ cognition of environmental education’s view of history.Figure 3
Investigation into the idea of combining education with historical environment.In addition, some scholars point out that “we should fully realize the important role of environmental education in the long history and realize the limitation of heroic historical view” in the research on the influence of environmental history on historical view. By comparing the investigation and research of Chongqing university students on the theory of historical principal motive force, the author finds that most students can realize the importance of the people, while some students cannot correctly understand the important role of environmental education in history. Nowadays, with the complexity of environmental history, college students’ views on history are also diverse. Most college students can resist pressure and public opinion and stick to a correct view of history. However, some college students will be influenced by environmental history and cannot adhere to a scientific view of history. A small number of college students are affected by the incorrect environmental history, which affects the correct view of history.


### 3.1.2. Influence on College Students’ Values

Values affect the value orientation of our country and even the whole nation. College students generally have a curiosity mentality and are easily interested in new ideas that are different from traditional ones. However, as the values of college students have not been formed, they are easily induced by bad ideas.In Figure4, the question “What is the impact of environmental history on college students’ values in the education process?” is investigated: 5.8% of college students believe that values are completely influenced by the environment; nearly 50% of college students’ values are highly likely to be affected by the environment; 43.9% of them say that their values may not be affected by the environment; and very few of them think that their values are not affected by the environment at all.Figure 4
Influence of environmental history on college students’ values in the process of education.Environmental history has a great influence on education and further on students’ values. Different educational environments have great differences in values. In Figure5, the question “Which is more beneficial to shaping values, school education, or family education?” is investigated: 38.9 percent of college students think the educational environment is more favorable; 56.3% of college students think family education has a great influence on their values; and 4.8 percent said they could not tell.Figure 5
Which is better for shaping values, schooling, or home schooling?In Figure6, the question “Which is the greater influence of theoretical education or practical education on values?” is investigated; 36.0 percent of college students think theoretical education has a great influence. 19.0% of college students should be influenced by practical education. 24.0% of college students think both theoretical education and practical education are very important. 20.0% of college students said they were not clear about the relationship between them.Figure 6
Influence of theoretical education and practical education on values.


### 3.1.3. Influence on College Students’ Political Views

Political view refers to people’s general views and views on current national politics, covering the value selection and behavioral direction of political subjects. Adhering to the correct political outlook is conducive to social members’ understanding of the country, to the implementation of major national policies, and to the improvement of national governance and social governance capacity. Analysis of the impact of environmental history on the political education of college students is performed. In Figure7, the question “What do you think of the impact of environmental history on college students’ political outlook?” is investigated: 56.8% of college students believe that environmental history is closely related to political education and that we should insist on the political education of students and attach great importance to the influence of environmental history; 19.3% of college students may have related to environmental history and political education; and 23.9% of college students disagree and think there is no relationship between the two. Most students have a clear understanding of political views. Political education should be further optimized with the influence of environmental history. Few believe that the shaping of political views has nothing to do with environmental history.Figure 7
Influence of environmental history on college students’ political outlook.In Figure8, the question. “How to shape a better political view by combining environmental education?” is investigated: 59.8% of college students said that political views are closely related to environmental history, and they should receive good environmental education to strengthen their political stance; 28.3% of college students believe that there are many factors influencing their political views, not just environmental education; and 11.9% of college students said they were not sure.Figure 8
Can environmental education shape a better political outlook?Practical experience tells us that we should always adhere to our political beliefs and strive for our country and people, and rigorously study correct environmental history.


### 3.1.4. Influence on College Students’ Inheritance of Traditional Culture

Some scholars point out that traditional culture is a time-tested excellent culture that includes ethics and morality. It is not achieved overnight, but through the baptism of years, the test of practice is just handed down. The traditional Chinese culture has passed the test of history and is the essence of the nation. We should continue to learn its essence and pass it on from generation to generation. Obviously, wrong environmental history can take advantage of college students’ curiosity, break history, and mislead people’s eyes. If allowed to develop willfully, it will erode the formation of three views of college students, shake their political ideals and beliefs, and affect the inheritance of Chinese culture, and the consequences are unimaginable.


## 3.1.1. Influence on College Students’ View of History

The view of history is the general and fundamental view of history. Figure2 is aimed at the question “Does environmental history have an impact on students’ view of history in education.” 72.4% of college students believe that there is a close relationship between the two and that the formation of college students’ view of history is influenced by environmental history in the process of education. 23.2 percent of college students may have a connection. A small number of college students think there is no necessary connection between the two. It can be seen from the survey results that the vast majority of college students have a clear understanding of environmental history and can make a clear judgment.Figure 2
Investigation into the influence of environmental history on students’ view of history in education.Do you think education should be combined with historical environment? The results of this survey are shown in Figure3: 42.6% of college students believe that environmental education can guarantee the correct development of college students’ view of history; 23.8% of college students think adding environmental education may be beneficial; 26.3% of college students thought it was unclear; and 7.3% of college students cannot add it, thinking it is not meaningful. It can be seen that the vast majority of students hold positive views on environmental education. Yet, there are still some college students who cannot accurately grasp. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen college students’ cognition of environmental education’s view of history.Figure 3
Investigation into the idea of combining education with historical environment.In addition, some scholars point out that “we should fully realize the important role of environmental education in the long history and realize the limitation of heroic historical view” in the research on the influence of environmental history on historical view. By comparing the investigation and research of Chongqing university students on the theory of historical principal motive force, the author finds that most students can realize the importance of the people, while some students cannot correctly understand the important role of environmental education in history. Nowadays, with the complexity of environmental history, college students’ views on history are also diverse. Most college students can resist pressure and public opinion and stick to a correct view of history. However, some college students will be influenced by environmental history and cannot adhere to a scientific view of history. A small number of college students are affected by the incorrect environmental history, which affects the correct view of history.


## 3.1.2. Influence on College Students’ Values

Values affect the value orientation of our country and even the whole nation. College students generally have a curiosity mentality and are easily interested in new ideas that are different from traditional ones. However, as the values of college students have not been formed, they are easily induced by bad ideas.In Figure4, the question “What is the impact of environmental history on college students’ values in the education process?” is investigated: 5.8% of college students believe that values are completely influenced by the environment; nearly 50% of college students’ values are highly likely to be affected by the environment; 43.9% of them say that their values may not be affected by the environment; and very few of them think that their values are not affected by the environment at all.Figure 4
Influence of environmental history on college students’ values in the process of education.Environmental history has a great influence on education and further on students’ values. Different educational environments have great differences in values. In Figure5, the question “Which is more beneficial to shaping values, school education, or family education?” is investigated: 38.9 percent of college students think the educational environment is more favorable; 56.3% of college students think family education has a great influence on their values; and 4.8 percent said they could not tell.Figure 5
Which is better for shaping values, schooling, or home schooling?In Figure6, the question “Which is the greater influence of theoretical education or practical education on values?” is investigated; 36.0 percent of college students think theoretical education has a great influence. 19.0% of college students should be influenced by practical education. 24.0% of college students think both theoretical education and practical education are very important. 20.0% of college students said they were not clear about the relationship between them.Figure 6
Influence of theoretical education and practical education on values.


## 3.1.3. Influence on College Students’ Political Views

Political view refers to people’s general views and views on current national politics, covering the value selection and behavioral direction of political subjects. Adhering to the correct political outlook is conducive to social members’ understanding of the country, to the implementation of major national policies, and to the improvement of national governance and social governance capacity. Analysis of the impact of environmental history on the political education of college students is performed. In Figure7, the question “What do you think of the impact of environmental history on college students’ political outlook?” is investigated: 56.8% of college students believe that environmental history is closely related to political education and that we should insist on the political education of students and attach great importance to the influence of environmental history; 19.3% of college students may have related to environmental history and political education; and 23.9% of college students disagree and think there is no relationship between the two. Most students have a clear understanding of political views. Political education should be further optimized with the influence of environmental history. Few believe that the shaping of political views has nothing to do with environmental history.Figure 7
Influence of environmental history on college students’ political outlook.In Figure8, the question. “How to shape a better political view by combining environmental education?” is investigated: 59.8% of college students said that political views are closely related to environmental history, and they should receive good environmental education to strengthen their political stance; 28.3% of college students believe that there are many factors influencing their political views, not just environmental education; and 11.9% of college students said they were not sure.Figure 8
Can environmental education shape a better political outlook?Practical experience tells us that we should always adhere to our political beliefs and strive for our country and people, and rigorously study correct environmental history.


## 3.1.4. Influence on College Students’ Inheritance of Traditional Culture

Some scholars point out that traditional culture is a time-tested excellent culture that includes ethics and morality. It is not achieved overnight, but through the baptism of years, the test of practice is just handed down. The traditional Chinese culture has passed the test of history and is the essence of the nation. We should continue to learn its essence and pass it on from generation to generation. Obviously, wrong environmental history can take advantage of college students’ curiosity, break history, and mislead people’s eyes. If allowed to develop willfully, it will erode the formation of three views of college students, shake their political ideals and beliefs, and affect the inheritance of Chinese culture, and the consequences are unimaginable.


## 3.2. Analysis of the Causes of Environmental History Affecting Education

Education is influenced by environmental history in various aspects, and the reasons are also varied, mainly reflected in the following points:


### 3.2.1. Environmental History

Firstly, environmental history is permeable, affecting our lives every moment. Secondly, environmental history has secrecy. Environmental history expands the influence of its own ideas through academic journals, seminars, books, and other forms, and spreads its own ideas secretly by means of academic film and television media, which are relatively natural.


### 3.2.2. Cognitive Ability of College Students

However, college students’ understanding of environmental history is still in the primary stage, and they lack the ability of theoretical analysis, so they cannot use historical materialism to analyze problems. The lack of cognitive ability of college students leads to the influence of environmental history on college students’ ideological tendency and behavior to varying degrees. Due to the weakness of basic theoretical knowledge and the lack of rational analysis ability, college students are often affected by the wrong remarks, which poses a certain degree of challenge to their unformed world outlook, outlook on life, and values.


### 3.2.3. Environmental Changes at Home and Abroad

The environmental history of different regions varies greatly due to their own historical reasons, but with the in-depth development of globalization, Western culture and Western values, especially works advocating Western system concepts, flow into China. They are active in China’s politics, culture, academic research, and other fields, imperceptibly affecting the people, especially college students. In the new historical period, the harmonious relationship between environmental histories makes some wrong thoughts and remarks mixed in, and gives rise to a series of wrong theories. College students are vulnerable to the confusion of well-packaged social trends of thought due to their unsophisticated experience in the world, which leads to untruth-based historical cognition and affects the shaping of college students’ historical views.


### 3.2.4. Education and Teaching in Colleges and Universities

College students are the hope of the country, the future of the nation, and the main force of the country’s future social development. Good history education is to adjust the behavior of college students, in order to achieve the purpose of the high social identity of college students. Environmental education in schools plays a decisive role in helping students establish the correct three views. The author conducted an investigation on the effect of higher education. As shown in Figure9, 45.2% of college students believe that the education effect of their colleges and universities is remarkable. 43.5% of college students think the education in their colleges and universities is effective, but the effect is just average. However, 11.3% of college students think their education is ineffective.Figure 9
Effect of higher education is investigated.


### 3.2.5. Influence of Online Social Media

With the continuous development of new online social media, there are inevitably some problems. The improper development of network social media will have a very bad influence on the thoughts of college students and will inevitably hinder the progress of society. At the same time, online social media does not match relevant laws and regulations, resulting in the chaos of online information.As shown in Figure10, the question “What are your main channels for obtaining information?” is investigated: 49.8% of students use microblog, We Chat, forums, and other ways to get information; 16.7% students get the information they need through classroom teaching; 13.3% of students obtain relevant information through paper reading materials; 10.4% of the students obtained political information and historical knowledge through special lectures; and 9.8% of the students got to know it through movies and TV plays.Figure 10
Access to information.It can be seen that there are various channels for college students to obtain information, but they mainly obtain historical knowledge and political information through network social media. A good network environment for college students to obtain information optimization and about education environment has a great impact.


## 3.2.1. Environmental History

Firstly, environmental history is permeable, affecting our lives every moment. Secondly, environmental history has secrecy. Environmental history expands the influence of its own ideas through academic journals, seminars, books, and other forms, and spreads its own ideas secretly by means of academic film and television media, which are relatively natural.


## 3.2.2. Cognitive Ability of College Students

However, college students’ understanding of environmental history is still in the primary stage, and they lack the ability of theoretical analysis, so they cannot use historical materialism to analyze problems. The lack of cognitive ability of college students leads to the influence of environmental history on college students’ ideological tendency and behavior to varying degrees. Due to the weakness of basic theoretical knowledge and the lack of rational analysis ability, college students are often affected by the wrong remarks, which poses a certain degree of challenge to their unformed world outlook, outlook on life, and values.


## 3.2.3. Environmental Changes at Home and Abroad

The environmental history of different regions varies greatly due to their own historical reasons, but with the in-depth development of globalization, Western culture and Western values, especially works advocating Western system concepts, flow into China. They are active in China’s politics, culture, academic research, and other fields, imperceptibly affecting the people, especially college students. In the new historical period, the harmonious relationship between environmental histories makes some wrong thoughts and remarks mixed in, and gives rise to a series of wrong theories. College students are vulnerable to the confusion of well-packaged social trends of thought due to their unsophisticated experience in the world, which leads to untruth-based historical cognition and affects the shaping of college students’ historical views.


## 3.2.4. Education and Teaching in Colleges and Universities

College students are the hope of the country, the future of the nation, and the main force of the country’s future social development. Good history education is to adjust the behavior of college students, in order to achieve the purpose of the high social identity of college students. Environmental education in schools plays a decisive role in helping students establish the correct three views. The author conducted an investigation on the effect of higher education. As shown in Figure9, 45.2% of college students believe that the education effect of their colleges and universities is remarkable. 43.5% of college students think the education in their colleges and universities is effective, but the effect is just average. However, 11.3% of college students think their education is ineffective.Figure 9
Effect of higher education is investigated.


## 3.2.5. Influence of Online Social Media

With the continuous development of new online social media, there are inevitably some problems. The improper development of network social media will have a very bad influence on the thoughts of college students and will inevitably hinder the progress of society. At the same time, online social media does not match relevant laws and regulations, resulting in the chaos of online information.As shown in Figure10, the question “What are your main channels for obtaining information?” is investigated: 49.8% of students use microblog, We Chat, forums, and other ways to get information; 16.7% students get the information they need through classroom teaching; 13.3% of students obtain relevant information through paper reading materials; 10.4% of the students obtained political information and historical knowledge through special lectures; and 9.8% of the students got to know it through movies and TV plays.Figure 10
Access to information.It can be seen that there are various channels for college students to obtain information, but they mainly obtain historical knowledge and political information through network social media. A good network environment for college students to obtain information optimization and about education environment has a great impact.


## 4. Result Analysis and Discussion

### 4.1. Research Significance of Educational Environmental History

The history of the educational environment is a cross-research field between educational history and environmental history. Based on environmental history, it is a field of mutual promotion of current educational development, learning environment and social environment by combining environmental education. The in-depth study of the history of the educational environment is of great significance for improving educational environment and promoting social development.(1)
The history of the educational environment observes human educational activities in the process of nature and its vicissitudes, transcending the spatial and geographical boundaries of traditional nation-states. In a broader context, the author gives a new understanding and imagination to the development and evolution of education itself and its interaction with nature, society, politics, economy, and culture. It will open up a new research field for the history of education and further promote the discipline construction and development of the history of education.(2)
The environmental perspective and ecological consciousness of educational environmental history research are the embodiment and adherence of Marxist historical materialism and environmental view. On the one hand, “man himself is a product of nature, developed in and with his environment.” The emphasis of the history of the educational environment on the external environment of education is based on the fundamental premise that “man and his education are part of the whole environment (including the natural environment),” and education is neither born in a vacuum nor can survive alone without “environment.” On the other hand, man can adapt and change his environment so that it serves his purpose. Therefore, the history of the educational environment is devoted to revealing the relationship between education and environment hidden in the long history.(3)
The study of educational environmental history conforms to the development frontier of international historiography and the trend of interdisciplinary study of educational history. The development of contemporary international historiography has experienced two turns, from the new social history that pursues objectivity and science to the new cultural history that focuses on subjectivity and philosophy. The global history emphasizes the combination of objectivity and subjectivity, science, and philosophy. In this global historical turn with “holistic consciousness,” environmental history has gradually become a “rookie” of historiography, rediscovering the “environmental factors” in history and the interactive relationship between human society and the environment.(4)
The study of educational environmental history is the academic response and responsibility of the subject of educational history to the current environmental problems and the future of human beings. Through the restoration, explanation, and analysis of educational historical facts and educational environment, it helps people to understand the influence of environment on education and the reaction of education to environment more deeply and to understand the historical significance of education in promoting environmental protection and achieving the sustainable development goals. In this sense, the history of the educational environment has its own temperature and is closely related to reality.


### 4.2. Education Countermeasures

How to study environmental history correctly: It is necessary for us to strengthen guidance and make college students form the correct three views. Environmental history takes many forms; but if we can see it for what it is, we can see through its false appearance.(1)
Rich theoretical knowledge can reflect the humanistic quality of college students. However, the absence of theoretical knowledge will make college students fall into the whirlpool of unhealthy social trends of thought. The theoretical knowledge of university monks needs to be improved. At the same time, we should establish a scientific view of history. In the process of learning, we should be good at using the scientific method of historical materialism to analyze. In daily life, it is achieved as far as possible through historical materialism research methods to learn.(2)
College education should carry out activities such as academic research and teaching. By participating in the activities, college students can not only deepen their understanding of the classroom content but also promote their basic understanding of national conditions and party conditions, expand their knowledge, and enrich their theoretical knowledge. College teachers can also know the degree of theoretical knowledge mastered by college students in real time, and provide data reference for later teaching practice content.(3)
Schools should cultivate students’ sense of independence. Colleges and universities should perfect education, change teaching methods, improve teaching content, and pay attention to cultivating the independent personality of college students. At the same time, families should improve education, set up a correct view of education, pay attention to cultivating children’s ability to think independently, strengthen social education, carry out a variety of activities, cultivate their own awareness of independence, and also need to strengthen self-education, maintain a positive attitude, develop independent thinking ability, and form a complete personality.


### 4.3. Optimize the Ideological and Political Education Environment

The positive and healthy campus culture is conducive to the formation of college students’ humanistic moral quality. The negative and decadent campus culture will corrupt the formation of three views of college students. It is very important to strengthen the campus culture and create a good campus atmosphere. The promotion of campus culture should carry out various campus cultural activities and, at the same time of improving the campus culture level, enrich the practical activities of college students, so as to enhance the cultural accomplishment of college students and create a good campus atmosphere.Man cannot live without social environment. There are still many problems in our society at present. Firstly, we must cultivate and practice core socialist values. The socialist core values, which are the concrete application of Marxist theory in China and the concise expression of the socialist core value system, are highly summarized from the three levels of the state, society, and individuals. Cultivation and practice of socialist core values, so that college students form a strong sense of identity, are the premise of forming a good social atmosphere.


### 4.4. Improve the Construction of Education Team

College teachers have the most direct influence on college students. Therefore, the quality of teachers should be strictly required in education. Firstly, teachers’ theoretical literacy should be improved. Teachers should constantly strengthen their own theoretical knowledge and update theoretical knowledge in time, and should focus on social hot spots and increase the channels for students to obtain information, from the side to guide students to establish a correct view of history. Secondly, in order to improve the comprehensive quality of teachers, it is necessary to train them. Theory teachers can improve their teaching skills and abilities through training and scientific research activities.Teacher’s professional quality refers to the comprehensive quality formed by teachers in the process of practice, including professional ethics, professional skills, professional behavior, and other aspects. The improvement of teachers’ professional quality is very important. The improvement of teachers’ quality should have firm faith in the communist party of China. At the same time, we need to have a deeper understanding of Chinese history and a deep affection for Chinese culture. Only in this way can teachers truly infect and influence students, so that they can accept the content in class and gradually form the correct political stance and value direction.


### 4.5. Improve the Level of Internet Supervision

We should exert the positive function of network communication, release positive and positive information, screen out negative and negative information, clean up the network environment, regulate network behavior, occupy the commanding heights of the network position, and adhere to the correct guidance of public opinion. At the same time, censorship has been stepped up. We should strengthen the review of articles, literary works, movies and television plays, small network videos, and other contents, find problems, and immediately stop and prevent the expansion of the content. We will encourage the publication of excellent literary and artistic works and promote their development and prosperity, and strengthen the Internet supervision. We need to govern, operate, and access the Internet in accordance with the law to ensure that the Internet operates in a sound way on the track of rule of law. In recent years, relevant departments have addressed Internet problems and defined prominent problems by law. It can not only provide the regulatory authorities with the legal basis to control the spread of harmful information but also have a certain degree of deterrence to the publishers of such information.


### 4.6. Boost and Actively Practice Cultural Confidence

Through practical experience, we can personally perceive the charm of Chinese culture. For example, when attending the revolutionary education base, I can understand the revolutionary history, understand the revolutionary spirit, and strengthen my own ideals and beliefs. We should visit museums, memorials, former residences of celebrities, etc., enrich college students’ cultural deposits, enhance college students’ cultural identity, firm socialist cultural development direction, and enhance college students’ cultural consciousness. Cultural confidence, more importantly, requires us to be full of confidence in our own culture. On the basis of understanding our own culture, we should form a strong sense of identity, love our own culture, and then practice cultural confidence in practical life in twofold: on the one hand, the inheritance of culture, such as the inheritance of excellent classics, traditional festivals, traditional art, in the process of inheritance to improve their own humanistic quality; and, on the other hand, the development of culture, in the process of cultural inheritance to perform timely screening, and then develop and create culture to meet the requirements of the times.To put it simply, cultural consciousness is the foundation, and cultural confidence is built on the basis of cultural consciousness. The positive practice of cultural confidence is conducive to the self-improvement of culture and the great prosperity of socialist culture. Chinese people’s recognition of their own culture is gradually formed in the process of long-term active learning, and cultural consciousness promotes cultural confidence. It is the glorious mission of college students in the new era to boost and actively practice cultural confidence and build a cultural power.


## 4.1. Research Significance of Educational Environmental History

The history of the educational environment is a cross-research field between educational history and environmental history. Based on environmental history, it is a field of mutual promotion of current educational development, learning environment and social environment by combining environmental education. The in-depth study of the history of the educational environment is of great significance for improving educational environment and promoting social development.(1)
The history of the educational environment observes human educational activities in the process of nature and its vicissitudes, transcending the spatial and geographical boundaries of traditional nation-states. In a broader context, the author gives a new understanding and imagination to the development and evolution of education itself and its interaction with nature, society, politics, economy, and culture. It will open up a new research field for the history of education and further promote the discipline construction and development of the history of education.(2)
The environmental perspective and ecological consciousness of educational environmental history research are the embodiment and adherence of Marxist historical materialism and environmental view. On the one hand, “man himself is a product of nature, developed in and with his environment.” The emphasis of the history of the educational environment on the external environment of education is based on the fundamental premise that “man and his education are part of the whole environment (including the natural environment),” and education is neither born in a vacuum nor can survive alone without “environment.” On the other hand, man can adapt and change his environment so that it serves his purpose. Therefore, the history of the educational environment is devoted to revealing the relationship between education and environment hidden in the long history.(3)
The study of educational environmental history conforms to the development frontier of international historiography and the trend of interdisciplinary study of educational history. The development of contemporary international historiography has experienced two turns, from the new social history that pursues objectivity and science to the new cultural history that focuses on subjectivity and philosophy. The global history emphasizes the combination of objectivity and subjectivity, science, and philosophy. In this global historical turn with “holistic consciousness,” environmental history has gradually become a “rookie” of historiography, rediscovering the “environmental factors” in history and the interactive relationship between human society and the environment.(4)
The study of educational environmental history is the academic response and responsibility of the subject of educational history to the current environmental problems and the future of human beings. Through the restoration, explanation, and analysis of educational historical facts and educational environment, it helps people to understand the influence of environment on education and the reaction of education to environment more deeply and to understand the historical significance of education in promoting environmental protection and achieving the sustainable development goals. In this sense, the history of the educational environment has its own temperature and is closely related to reality.


## 4.2. Education Countermeasures

How to study environmental history correctly: It is necessary for us to strengthen guidance and make college students form the correct three views. Environmental history takes many forms; but if we can see it for what it is, we can see through its false appearance.(1)
Rich theoretical knowledge can reflect the humanistic quality of college students. However, the absence of theoretical knowledge will make college students fall into the whirlpool of unhealthy social trends of thought. The theoretical knowledge of university monks needs to be improved. At the same time, we should establish a scientific view of history. In the process of learning, we should be good at using the scientific method of historical materialism to analyze. In daily life, it is achieved as far as possible through historical materialism research methods to learn.(2)
College education should carry out activities such as academic research and teaching. By participating in the activities, college students can not only deepen their understanding of the classroom content but also promote their basic understanding of national conditions and party conditions, expand their knowledge, and enrich their theoretical knowledge. College teachers can also know the degree of theoretical knowledge mastered by college students in real time, and provide data reference for later teaching practice content.(3)
Schools should cultivate students’ sense of independence. Colleges and universities should perfect education, change teaching methods, improve teaching content, and pay attention to cultivating the independent personality of college students. At the same time, families should improve education, set up a correct view of education, pay attention to cultivating children’s ability to think independently, strengthen social education, carry out a variety of activities, cultivate their own awareness of independence, and also need to strengthen self-education, maintain a positive attitude, develop independent thinking ability, and form a complete personality.


## 4.3. Optimize the Ideological and Political Education Environment

The positive and healthy campus culture is conducive to the formation of college students’ humanistic moral quality. The negative and decadent campus culture will corrupt the formation of three views of college students. It is very important to strengthen the campus culture and create a good campus atmosphere. The promotion of campus culture should carry out various campus cultural activities and, at the same time of improving the campus culture level, enrich the practical activities of college students, so as to enhance the cultural accomplishment of college students and create a good campus atmosphere.Man cannot live without social environment. There are still many problems in our society at present. Firstly, we must cultivate and practice core socialist values. The socialist core values, which are the concrete application of Marxist theory in China and the concise expression of the socialist core value system, are highly summarized from the three levels of the state, society, and individuals. Cultivation and practice of socialist core values, so that college students form a strong sense of identity, are the premise of forming a good social atmosphere.


## 4.4. Improve the Construction of Education Team

College teachers have the most direct influence on college students. Therefore, the quality of teachers should be strictly required in education. Firstly, teachers’ theoretical literacy should be improved. Teachers should constantly strengthen their own theoretical knowledge and update theoretical knowledge in time, and should focus on social hot spots and increase the channels for students to obtain information, from the side to guide students to establish a correct view of history. Secondly, in order to improve the comprehensive quality of teachers, it is necessary to train them. Theory teachers can improve their teaching skills and abilities through training and scientific research activities.Teacher’s professional quality refers to the comprehensive quality formed by teachers in the process of practice, including professional ethics, professional skills, professional behavior, and other aspects. The improvement of teachers’ professional quality is very important. The improvement of teachers’ quality should have firm faith in the communist party of China. At the same time, we need to have a deeper understanding of Chinese history and a deep affection for Chinese culture. Only in this way can teachers truly infect and influence students, so that they can accept the content in class and gradually form the correct political stance and value direction.


## 4.5. Improve the Level of Internet Supervision

We should exert the positive function of network communication, release positive and positive information, screen out negative and negative information, clean up the network environment, regulate network behavior, occupy the commanding heights of the network position, and adhere to the correct guidance of public opinion. At the same time, censorship has been stepped up. We should strengthen the review of articles, literary works, movies and television plays, small network videos, and other contents, find problems, and immediately stop and prevent the expansion of the content. We will encourage the publication of excellent literary and artistic works and promote their development and prosperity, and strengthen the Internet supervision. We need to govern, operate, and access the Internet in accordance with the law to ensure that the Internet operates in a sound way on the track of rule of law. In recent years, relevant departments have addressed Internet problems and defined prominent problems by law. It can not only provide the regulatory authorities with the legal basis to control the spread of harmful information but also have a certain degree of deterrence to the publishers of such information.


## 4.6. Boost and Actively Practice Cultural Confidence

Through practical experience, we can personally perceive the charm of Chinese culture. For example, when attending the revolutionary education base, I can understand the revolutionary history, understand the revolutionary spirit, and strengthen my own ideals and beliefs. We should visit museums, memorials, former residences of celebrities, etc., enrich college students’ cultural deposits, enhance college students’ cultural identity, firm socialist cultural development direction, and enhance college students’ cultural consciousness. Cultural confidence, more importantly, requires us to be full of confidence in our own culture. On the basis of understanding our own culture, we should form a strong sense of identity, love our own culture, and then practice cultural confidence in practical life in twofold: on the one hand, the inheritance of culture, such as the inheritance of excellent classics, traditional festivals, traditional art, in the process of inheritance to improve their own humanistic quality; and, on the other hand, the development of culture, in the process of cultural inheritance to perform timely screening, and then develop and create culture to meet the requirements of the times.To put it simply, cultural consciousness is the foundation, and cultural confidence is built on the basis of cultural consciousness. The positive practice of cultural confidence is conducive to the self-improvement of culture and the great prosperity of socialist culture. Chinese people’s recognition of their own culture is gradually formed in the process of long-term active learning, and cultural consciousness promotes cultural confidence. It is the glorious mission of college students in the new era to boost and actively practice cultural confidence and build a cultural power.


## 5. Conclusion

This article through to the education and the development of environmental history background, and the exploration and analysis of the history of education environment, combined with the theoretical research by means of the questionnaire survey, analyzed the influence of the history of environment for education, through the analysis of environmental education on college students’ view, values, political theory, and the effect of further analysis of the research on the history of education environment. The history of the educational environment, as an interdisciplinary research field of educational history and environmental history, not only sticks to and carries forward the dialectical relationship between man and environment thought of Marxism but also conforms to the frontier of international history and the trend of interdisciplinary research of educational history. It not only has the academic value of promoting the discipline construction of educational history but also has the strong feelings of caring about the global environmental problems and the future and destiny of mankind and the social function of guiding the reality.Due to the diversity and diversity of environmental history, the study of educational environmental history is still relatively simple. Further study on the history of environmental education can be based on the differences in different cultural and historical environments to carry out diversified environmental education and improve the history of environmental education.



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