Everyone, not just planners and decision-makers, have a responsibility for future development. It is therefore important to carefully plan actions to raise awareness, especially among youth, equipping them with the ability to comprehend the tangible results of their lifestyle and how they themselves can contribute to improving the space they inhabit. Za prihodnji razvoj smo odgovorni vsi, ne le pe{~ica na~rtovalcev in nosilcev odlo~anja. Zato je treba bolj na~rtno osve{~ati {e zlasti mlade, da se bodo zavedali, kako njihove vsakdanje `ivljenjske prakse odsevajo v prostoru in kako lahko sami prispevajo k izbolj{anju stanja.
IGOR LAPAJNEJerneja Fridl, Mimi Urbanc, Primo` Pipan, The Importance of Teachers' Perception of Space in Education ABSTRACT: In addition to environmental problems, spatial pressures are also being exacerbated by increasing economic development, the prosperity of the European population, and the increasing needs of various activities. These can only be mitigated through carefully planned use of space, which demands more active inclusion of the public in addition to relevant services. For successful public inclusion it is important for both individuals and social communities to be aware that space is a limited commodity exposed to increasing social and economic pressure. This kind of awareness demands an informed and educated population that will not only build its attitude towards space based on conceptual knowledge, but also supplement this through perceptual knowledge obtained in education. Active, responsible, and critical citizens can only be cultivated by properly educated, informed, and motivated teachers. These teachers can use new methods to address many existing topics and include new topics to considerably broaden their students' minds. This is also what this paper seeks to demonstrate. It focuses on the comprehension of space through spatial perception, further development of routine conceptual knowledge through fieldwork, and the possibility of applying selected methods to learning processes. The goal of these efforts will be achieved when individuals and society understand that we are all responsible for space and therefore the attitude towards it must change as soon as possible if space is to be preserved for future generations in the spirit of sustainable development.