The analysis between education and quality oh life in the large urban centers is definitely connected to social-environmental issues. Thinking about the quality of life is considering the environmental quality and to develop health prevention actions that will presuppose to turn the attention to the planning of urban growth. This present work will deal with the casualty of low conditions in the quality of life and health that comes from alterations in the environment and their problems that are associated with the uncontrolled urban growth. It will also present a critical analysis for the conditions of accommodation in situations of environmental inadequacies that will be the instrument used by the community to open itself up to the reflection about the occupied habitat and the treatment of the socialenvironmental issues experienced there. The basis to think about this education will include a critical and social-constructive approach and the establishment of environmental education.
environmental education; social and environmental foundations; quality of life