Tongxin Cai

Tongxin Cai

May 30, 2025

Rural revitalization, Traditional ecological culture, Environmental design, Curriculum integration, Pedagogical innovation.

In the context of China's rural revitalization strategy, traditional ecological culture is an important medium for carrying Chinese outstanding culture, and contains profound ecological space culture and wisdom in environmental design. From the perspective of teaching environmental design courses, this paper explores how to effectively integrate traditional ecological culture into educational content and teaching methods, in order to respond to the composite requirements of “ecological, local and innovative” for design education in the new era. The study summarizes the compatibility between traditional ecological culture and environmental design, builds a path of integration, and demonstrates the effectiveness of curriculum implementation through teaching cases. The study shows that the curriculum design incorporating traditional ecological culture can enhance students' cultural cognition and ecological awareness, and provide innovative ideas for rural design practice. Finally, the difficulties and challenges in teaching are summarized, and suggestions for continuous optimization are put forward to provide a feasible path for promoting the sustainable development of local environmental design education and establishing a special design professional education system.

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