Built Environment Education. Fostering Growth in School Children

Nowadays the crisis of rapid urbanization needs urgent actions. During the years, adults` attention towards children gradually increases and the idea of introducing built environment to young people became a priority task for many city and country authorities. The focus of this study is on the importance of the built environment experience as a teaching method enabling creative educational growth of children in primary school. It provides a wide range of creative, interdisciplinary learning opportunities for young people and support the traditional school curriculum by creating a more broad minded and progressive education system ultimately related to society and everyday life. The aim of this study is by investigating and analyzing the recent international and national theoretical and practical studies in the field of the Built Environment Education to create a new course ``Architecture in school`` that can be implemented in the primary school curriculum.