The consumer education movement is traced to the early decades of the twentieth century and future directions are explored on the basis of past experience. (Author/KM)

A course in rural studies, as part of the Home Economics curriculum at Worcester College of Education, provides students with the opportunity to grow their own vegetables and flowers, look after livestock, and experience a rural environment. (RY)

A project identified consumer education content that Louisiana consumer and home economics teachers perceive as being important. It also evaluated content of curriculum guides currently available from states and determined if any of these meet the needs of home economics consumer education programs in Louisiana. A questionnaire was developed to…

Basic information for the development of a consumer and homemaking experience-centered program in the elementary school is provided in this resource guide. Content is presented in outline form to facilitate use by both educators who do and do not have homemaking teachers on their staff. The following sections are included: (1) the homemaking…

A course, titled New Approaches to Consumer Homemaking Education'', was designed to help teachers improve their teaching effectiveness, make their classes more consumer oriented, and more relevant to low income students. (Author/RK)

Three papers focusing upon the beliefs and issues confronting professionals concerned with consumer and homemaking education programs are presented. The first paper "Consumer and Homemaking Education Today" (R. Hughes), examines the questions of content and audience from a curriculum development view. The status of programs using…

The consumer education for adults guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, was developed in a curriculum workshop at Winthrop College in June 1972. It was written in reference to a norm grouping. The concepts presented are: family life cycle, life style, the consumer in the economy, spending plan, consumer credit, financing…

The seven interpersonal relations units in the consumer education guide are: Expressing Satisfaction or Dissatisfaction with Consumer Goods and Services, What to Do in Case of a Financial Crisis, Bridging the Generation Gap, Rebellion, Emotions, Discovering Myself, and Dual Role (homemaker/wage earner). Grade levels of the units, are…

Although teachers play central roles in education, traditionally, teachers have not had a major voice in educational change. The teacher is often viewed as a passive receiver of a change product or as a reactor to change. In more recent literature, however, more attention has been given to the personal nature of change and the relations between…

Within the last decade, many schools and departments of home economics have changed their name to "human ecology," whereas others have become "family and consumer sciences," and still others have remained unchanged. "Human ecology" has tended to be used more in higher education, and "family and consumer…

The family health guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, was developed in a 3-week curriculum workshop at Winthrop College in June 1972. The identified objectives and learning experiences have been developed with basic reference to developmental tasks, needs, interests, capacities, and prior learning experiences of students. The…

The guide is an attempt to help teachers select content and organize instructions in a sequence that will help students grasp the basic structure of management and consumer education. The guide was written in reference to a norm grouping. The advanced course for grade 10 presents the concepts of decision making and teenager consumership. The…

To determine priorities for critical problems facing consumer and homemaking education and plan research projects which focus on these critical problems, a 5-day conference was attended by 107 vocational-technical education specialists and educators. Conference sessions were planned to (1) identify critical research problem areas and prepare a…

The foods and nutrition guide, part of a consumer and homemaking education unit, identifies objectives and learning experiences with basic reference to developmental tasks, needs, interests, capacities, and prior learning experiences of students. The basic unit for grades 9 or 10 includes the significance of food in health and appearance,…