The academic and scientific production about Environmental Education (EE) in Brazil is large and significant. The aim of this study is to accomplish an introductory analyze of the academic production about EE, concerning a theoretical and critical view. The EE is qualified as a theoretical field in progress by some authors below-mentioned and this is a sign of the importance of a periodic knowledge evaluation to provide both the advance of understanding in this field of study and to amplify the access to information. This Dissertation is an exploratory study, with a methodological inspiration from researches called art state. Besides revising the pertinent literature to its object of study, it is based on three fountains: the CAPES data basis during 1988/2004, the Fifth EE Iberian- American Congress, in 2006 and twelve theses from Rio de Janeiro City, between 2000 and 2004. Each of these fountains deserved a special approach. The CAPES data bank was shown in numbers, the theses were classified according to different categories: author, title, instructor, level of the course, institutional origin, period of time and area of the course they had come from. To the Congress Works, another data bank was created informing not only their origin but the areas where the EE had acted and the employed methodology too. At last, the twelve Dissertations from Rio de Janeiro were analyzed in relation to the production all over the country. They were described including the pre- textual elements, the textual ones and the post-textual ones. A special attention was given to their objectives , the methodology they followed, the bibliography, the theoretical views and the results they reached. In this Dissertation, we came to an evidence: the panoramic observation created two new data banks and the focused observation brought a better comprehension of the EE concepts. Both of them gave a contribution to confirm the various streams of thoughts found in the field of the EE, complemented the previous studies and brought new possibilities of reflection.