Provides an overview of the home management resident courses in 1980 and compares them with those taught in 1966, 1957, and 1951. Found that the resident course of the future depends upon the willingness of educators to adapt it in response to future changes. (JOW)

Ways to cut costs are listed for these areas: Food and nutrition, clothing, the home, energy, children, and personal. Three annual budgets for a four-person urban family are presented. (TA)

A practicum course, "Family Functioning," is an attempt by the School of Home Economics at the University of Nevada to make its students more sensitive to people while offering general home economics subject-matter courses. The response from students and from the families involved has been encouraging. (AG)

The instrument described in this article, "How Do You Help in the Family?," provides a way to recognize the number of tasks performed in home management and a method for expressing feelings about the stress associated with household work. (SK)

Recent studies confirm that sex-role stereotyping still exists in the conceptualization of work and division of household tasks. Home economics must continue to address this equity issue through curricular and advocacy efforts. (SK)

The role of home economists in fighting inflation should be to help families reorder priorities and set realistic goals. This process should start in the management area of home economics. (CT)

An undergraduate home economics program at the University of North Dakota infuses global concepts in courses on consumer issues, personal and family finances, and family management. Substantive themes center around values, family resource management patterns, interdependence, global issues/problems, critical thinking, and global actors. (SK)

The problems in measuring the economic value of the homemaker's job are examined. They include the complexity of components of the job, variations in the workload, and tools of measurement and valuation. (CT)

In a lecture for the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) 1987 Annual Meeting, the author addresses futuristic life-styles and discusses how home economics must meet these changes. Specific visions cited are (1) better communications between practitioners and higher education and (2) evolution of the field into a professional discipline…

Contains the teacher and student sections of a learning package designed to help the learner understand the influence of values on behavior. (SB)

Stating that home economists are directly related to concerns of the aged, the author notes some major specializations in home economics and how they can offer help to old people: housing and equipment, family and interpersonal relations, food and nutrition, clothing, consumer economics, and home management. (MF)

Problems of people in debt are briefly discussed; recommendations are made for future home economics programs in family financial and debt management that would help to remedy the lack of knowledge and skills of the American consumer in these areas. (TA)

Briefly discusses several financial counseling programs that emphasize service to families; also provides examples of home economists who practice family money management counseling. (TA)

Describes the Kent State's Department of Family Economics and the Army Community Services (ACS) cooperative financial counseling program in which student financial counselors work with families of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, offering remedial, preventive, or productive counseling. (SH)

A private-sector solution to the problems of the elderly is HomeCall, Inc. Using the home management approach, the corporation allows the aging to remain in their homes and buy needed services for home maintenance from high school and college age persons who arained and supervised by a managing home economist. (TA)