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The main objective of this paper is to analyze the objectives of sustainable development (OSD) established in September 2015, in an agreement signed by 193 countries at the United Nations General Assembly, from the perspective of Critical Environmental Education. The specific objectives were: to present the concept of Environmental Education in the critical perspective; to know the objectives of sustainable development; to analyze the OSD in the perspective of Critical Environmental Education. The research question listed was: are there possible approaches to think of the achievement of OSD, through an Environmental Education in its critical aspect? In the present work we start from the assumption that Environmental Education in its critical aspect is defined in Brazil from a matrix that sees education as an element of social transformation, inspired by dialogue, in the exercise of citizenship, in the strengthening of subjects, in the overcoming capitalist forms of domination and understanding the world in its complexity. At the end, it is evident that Environmental Education, in its critical, emancipating and transforming aspect of reality, shows itself as a viable path for the pursuit of the sustainable development goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the folk-communication performances of project Teatro na Usina (Theater in the Plant), in the district of Bebelândia, Santa Rita city-PB, Brazil's northeast. The aim is to check how the cultural initiative cooperates with the protagonism, empowerment and citizenship. The applicated method was a study case, during November/2016, including semistructured interviews, with the intention of reveling the communities' voices about the proposal and improvements caused by project. The cultural performances, after the conclusions, contribute to the local development, within social and educational aspects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]