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Download full textGorman, Anna M. – 1969
To give direction to future program planning, this study was conducted to determine employment opportunities, analyze data to predict job trends, and analyze requirements for jobs in the home economics area. Structured interviews were conducted at 250 randomly selected businesses, industries and homes in seven major population centers of Kentucky.…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Food Service, Homemaking Skills, Job Skills
Dixon, Lois Claudine; And Others – 1973
A study was conducted to investigate certain characteristics of respondents who renovated furniture during a Washington County educational television 19-program series on chair renovation, who had previously renovated furniture, and who planned to renovate a chair following the series, and to compare them with those respondents who had not. Data…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Educational Television, Extension Education, Furniture
PDF pending restorationMANN, OPAL H. – 1964
A STUDY WAS MADE OF THE NEED FOR EXTENSION WORK WITH LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN EASTERN KENTUCKY (APPALACHIA) AND OF THE PROBLEMS AND TRAINING NEEDS OF HOME DEMONSTRATION EXTENSION AGENTS WHO WORK WITH THESE FAMILIES. THE AGENTS FELT THEY HAD A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP LOW INCOME FAMILIES IN BUDGETING TIME, EFFORT, AND RESOURCES TO MEET MINIMUM…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Clothing Instruction, Educational Needs, Extension Agents
Mann, Opal – 1968
In planning a reorganization of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service by re-grouping counties, a statewide study of home economics education was made to determine the audience for the programs, methods by which audiences were reached, and differences between members of homemakers clubs and nonmembers. Interviews were held with a 5% random…
Descriptors: Clubs, Group Membership, Home Economics Education, Homemaking Skills
Kentucky State Dept. of Education, Frankfort. – 1983
This guide outlines the procedures for organizing and implementing STAR Event competitions held for members of the Kentucky Future Homemakers of America. (An acronym for the phrase "students taking action with recognition," the term STAR event refers to regional contests dealing with the skills taught in vocational home economics…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Employment Interviews, Guidelines, Home Economics Education
Miller, Sandra W. – 1988
A follow-up study was done of Kentucky seniors who graduated in 1987 and who had taken three or more semesters of consumer and homemaking education (CHE). Telephone interviews were completed for 157 graduates in 51 randomly selected Kentucky high schools. Two somewhat comparable interview schedule forms consisted of questions concerning…
Descriptors: Child Development, Consumer Education, Educational Benefits, Educational Research
Bishop, Helen; And Others – 1972
As the appendix for a series of curriculum guides for consumer and homemaking education on the secondary level in Kentucky, this booklet contains instructional activities for classroom use in conjunction with the units in the comprehensive curriculum guides. Included are games, puzzles, skits, quizzes, survey forms, checklists, and review sheets…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Child Development, Clothing, Consumer Economics
Keeton, Martha; And Others – 1983
This manual provides curriculum materials for implementing a career exploration class in home economics occupations within a Practical Arts Education program for middle/junior high school students. Introductory materials include the program master sequence, a list of home economics occupations, and an overview of the competency-based instructional…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Education, Career Exploration, Child Care Occupations
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1913
The Conference for Education in the South, which for 16 years has held its annual sessions at different places in the Southern States, is unique among educational conferences, in that its membership does not consist chiefly of teachers and school officers, but of farmers, professional men of all kinds, business men, and women of varied interests,…
Descriptors: Clubs, Females, Bachelors Degrees, Teacher Certification
