Environmental education: challenges and perspectives in the context of basic education

The present study presents an overview of what has been researched in the last four years (2016-2020) on Environmental Education in the context of Basic Education. In this sense, it aimed, through a bibliographic review, to synthesize publications in the area, identifying the authors' perceptions about the theme and the place of EE in the educational context today. Therefore, from Bardin (2004), categories were thought and organized in order to systematize the data, namely: teachers' representations about EE and its practices; insertion of critical EA in basic education and challenges; EA and teacher training and EA and educational policies. It is understood that the place of EE in the context of Basic Education is still enveloped in a certain cloudiness, full of challenges to be overcome, even with advances, achievements and theoretical scope on EE explained as a necessity at all levels of education.