Abstract
Text is a polemic with concept of pro-environmental behavior considered to be the main environmental educational. It shows importance of the problem questioning before its methodological elaboration into a set of educational goals and more general conclusions.
Thus, the question of environmental education as a specific type of “adjectival” education is opened in the broad educational context, especially with regard to future vision and ideas from the UNESCO Learning: the Treasure Within Report and other documents. From this very general viewpoint, the required quality in education should be expressed as “competences” rather than behavior; in this sense the “competences” are currently being defined in research articles and strategic educational papers.
The concept of competences is further analyzed with regard to its character and potential for innovations or paradigm changes. Briefly its “evolutionary deficiencies”, especially the lack of assessment methodologies, are summarized.