A theoretical-methodological reflection on the relationship between Architecture and Urbanism, childhoods, and basic education is presented here. Identifying the possibility of education from the territory itself, in a transdisciplinary perspective and that values te university outreach as something fundamental in this process, observing the school as a space with territorial educational potential. There is also a critique of the ways of doing and thinking about architecture, especially with regard to training in the area, demonstrating new possibilities of action from two case studies from public schools in the outskirts of the Federal District — Brazil, using active methodologies within the scope of Action Research.