ee criticism.The results indicate that, in general, the teachers recognize the importance of ee in school.In relation to their political character in students' education focus on the role to facilitate the engagement, participation and making decisions facing environmental problems.However, no contradiction between the understanding of the role of ee and content and how to make it viable, because although the paper approaches a conception of critical education, the contents are restricted to a view of the general environmental issue and without historical context.The expression of the relationship between ee and discipline of each teacher explained influences the current curriculum policy of the state.However, do not just ee be present or be made possible by educational policies and teachers having a speech and practices consistent with them, as the training and the work of the teacher in ee are related to a broader social plan that is full of political clashes and ideological issues, which greatly expressed in addressing the current state of civilization crisis.Thus, consistent with the prospect of ee critical advocated here, it is the overcoming contradictions of policies and practices in order to enable a critical and emancipatory education.