Creative Education, 2020, 11, 2053-2068 https://www.scirp.org/journal/ce ISSN Online: 2151-4771 ISSN Print: 2151-4755 DOI: 10.4236/ce.2020.1110150 Oct. 23, 2020 2053 Creative Education Environmental Education in Brazil: Socio-Historical Perspectives in Formal Teaching for Sustainability Francisco Arapiraca dos Santos, Elidinaldo da Silva Leite, Ricardo José Rocha Amorim, Dinani Gomes Amorim State University of Bahia, Senhor do Bonfim, Brazil Abstract Environmental Education has promoted to reflexive and intervening actions about productive processes in society. This term is quite comprehensive and its epistemological basis involves sustainability ideal achieving. So, in the search for new values about respect for life as a whole, formal education has offered great contributions. In this sense, the school is one of its biggest sup- porters. Forming citizens requires postures that stimulate thought and not a mere reproduction of content. The Brazilian policies foment and treat with compulsory the practice of environmental education in all its ambits. In this way, the objective of this work was to discuss such problems through a qua- litative approach with an emphasis on content analysis and documentary re- search. As the main results, we believe that large international corporations, governments, and other entities must be more active and to suppress the practice of environmental education is to accelerate the scarcity of natural resources. Keywords Environmental Education, Formal Education and Sustainability, Human Ecology 1. Introduction The environmental issue, Environmental Education and the school have led man to a reflexive and intervening action in relation to the productive processes in force. According to Verdelone, Campbell, & Alexandrino (2019), they are moti- vated by a model of current, unequal, exclusionary development that has sought How to cite this paper: dos Santos, F. A., da Silva Leite, E., Amorim, R. J. R., & Amo- rim, D. G. (2020). Environmental Educa- tion in Brazil: Socio-Historical Perspectives in Formal Teaching for Sustainability. Crea- tive Education, 11, 2053-2068. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2020.1110150 Received: September 9, 2020 Accepted: October 20, 2020 Published: October 23, 2020 Copyright © 2020 by author(s) and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access