The Historical Evolution and Development Trend of China's Ecological Civilization Education Policy Discourse——Analysis of Policy Texts on Ecological Civilization Education from 1978 to 2023
Since the reform and opening up, the Party and the state have attached great importance to ecologi-cal civilization education, and successively issued a series of relevant policies on ecological civilization educa-tion, forming a discourse system of ecological civilization education policy with Chinese characteristics. In this study, 267 policies related to ecological civilization education issued by the Party and the State from 1978 to 2023 were selected, and the policy discourse in the policy texts was deeply analyzed by combining quantitative and qualitative methods. The longitudinal study found that since the reform and opening up, China's ecologi-cal civilization education policy discourse has experienced four development stages: initial exploration, consoli-dation and strengthening, scientific optimization and in-depth development. The horizontal research builds an analytical framework from four dimensions: value orientation, goal orientation, educational content and guaran-tee mechanism. The results show that China's ecological civilization education policy discourse always adheres to the value position of ecological civilization, and the ecological civilization education policy discourse system is becoming mature and perfect in the continuous optimization and adjustment. It has gradually formed an eco-logical civilization education discourse system suitable for China's national conditions and people's needs. Ecological civilization education policy discourse not only leads the scientific development of ecological civiliza-tion education in China, but also provides constructive Chinese solutions for global ecological justice and sus-tainable development.
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