This article considers theoretical references used in the formation of environmental educators in undergraduate courses. These references define a theoretical picture when they are analysed considering the historical and dialectic materialism's methodological referential. Considering the professors' nucleus of representations, this theoretical picture can be organised in natural, rational and historical conceptions about the man-nature relationship and theirs representations of education. The analysis of these tendencies reveals a superation movement of the traditional paradigms that are present in the curricular organisation in the university.
Education; Environmental Education; Nature; Paradigms