Built Environment Education for Children And Youth: Scoping the Field

The authors identify a need to establish a shared framework, fostering collaboration, and advancing BEE as a recognized educational discipline. Through interviews with BEE practitioners within various institutional settings, internal workshops, as well as document analysis and a literature review, BEE situates itself within a broader educational framework. An important contribution and achievement in establishing the field was the mapping of the pedagogical underpinnings, including its concepts and methodologies, presenting BEE as “Pedagogies of Space.” A forthcoming handbook—Built Environment Education for Children and Youth: Establishing the Field—captures and synthesizes the findings of the study, seeking to learn from, and to bring together, the ever-growing global BEE community.