In order to analyze the roots of low actual effect of ideological and political education from the perspective of ecological civilization construction, by reviewing the literature, it is found that the low actual effect of ideological and political education is caused by some reasons, such as the lower education orientation, the mechanical way of educational thinking, the planar educational content, the biased education relations, the deductive way of education, the segregated subject of education, the hysteresis of education discourse, the disconnected target of education Therefore, in the future practice of ideological and political education, some ideas contained in ecological civilization should be implemented to strengthen the effectiveness of ideological and political education in college, including the idea of strategic objective, the idea of multidirectional concern, the idea of various adaptation, the idea of interactive feedback, the idea of equal participation, the idea of integral system, the idea of dynamic equilibrium, the idea of sustainable development and so on.
