One of the current lines of educational research, which provides valuable in- sights for understanding the training processes of the subjects, is that of social representation. this article describes the main aspects of the investigation Repre- sentations of the environment of under- graduate students in primary education. With the representations, students dis- criminate in space-time the elements of the environment, establishing connec- tions with social practices. among other results of the research, a relationship is found between the representations of the environment and trends in environ- mental education.