Inferences on the construction of the critical sense from environmental education in science education

The Environmental Education is a theme that allows reflections that directly interfere and in our lives and in the formation of critical sense in the process of teaching and learning, in addition, contributing to the change of behavior and attitudes towards the Environment. It is classified as a bibliographic study which was carried out from the teaching and learning process, with Environmental Education as an instrument in Science Teaching for the identification and analysis of the dichotomy between acriticity and criticality, the transition from common sense to critical thinking, and the elucidation of the critical sense in the educational process. This study establishes the importance of the interaction and interrelation of learning and the role of the teacher in the manifestation of the critical thinking of the students, in which educators play the strategic and decisive role in the insertion of Environmental Education in the school daily life, students for a critical position in the face of social and environmental crisis, having as horizon the transformation of habits and social practices and the formation of environmental citizenship that mobilizes them to the question of preservation and care with the environment in its more comprehensive meaning.