This paper aims to discuss the relationship between education, sustainability and democracy in relation to the Education for Sustainable Development proposal – ESD led by UNESCO, several international organizations, educational systems of European countries, and the scientific production that supports it. It evaluates the contradictions and implications of this proposal on the matters that are related to education and environmental issues, as well as explores the possibilities to build a complex and democratic educational system that assimilates environmental issues under a political and critical perspective. Therefore, it deals with the discussion and explanation of socio-educational projects, and with the intention of redeeming the diversity of world views, society and education that we wish for and can build together. To achieve this task this paper dialogues with theoretical references of Political Ecology and Critical Tradition and organizes the reflection in two moments: in the first one it criticizes the problematic aspects of the proposal mentioned above. In the second it explores the possibilities of building a relation between education and sustainability that integrates and encourages participative democracy, civil society and its ethical and political dimensions.
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