The paper relates to a research study currently in progress, which analyses, in a broader way, the educational paradigms connected to a Project entitled Education for All, from the Marxian ontology point of view. In this sense, it attempts to offer some introductory critical elements to the dominant approach applied to the issue of environmental crisis and its implications to the education for sustainable development. To accomplish this task, it portrays, in general lines, the most current discourses on ecology, going over some significant events that compose the environmental agenda, placing in this context, the role of education. Based upon the contributions of some authors who establish the necessary relationships between ecology, education, and the complexity of social reproduction, it points out the need to overcome the present social order, as an imperative condition for the solution of problems concerning human survival, as well as, that of full emancipation of mankind.
Ecology; Environmental Education; Marxian Ontology