ABSTRACT
There has been the ecological trend in the modern scientific development in the recent years, so numerous experts and researchers apply ecology to many fields, thereby appearing cultural ecology, social ecology and ecological anthropology, etc. Since these fields have some relationship with education and teaching development, they provide the theoretical foundation for the research of educational ecology (Yu 2006). In 1976, Lawrence Cremin, who was the dean of Teachers College in Columbia University and education critic, tried to apply the ecological methods to the education research activities. He was the first man to put forward the theory of educational ecology and tried to solve the teaching problems by ecological theory and methods in his book Public Education.
