Considering Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Environmental Education as the theoretical basis of this work, we analyse the Programa Nacional de Formação de Educadores(as) Ambientais (National Program for the formation of environmental educators) and also some texts with key concepts for public politics in Environmental Education (EE). In this work, discourse analysis shows that the relation between EE and school is presented in two coincident directions: on the one hand, it is intended to take those practices out of the school context, transferring them for other spaces considered more compatible with EE practices; on the other hand, when those actions are aimed at school integration, they are not always conceived and done as a dialogue between community and school knowledge. Therefore, they are not included or referred to as central questions for the educational context. Thus, ProFEA suggests that formation actions are not centered at school and the educational agents. This work advocates the entry of EE in public schools by the "front door".
Environmental Education; Critical Discourse Analysis; Public Politics