Developed through a study of concepts and subconcepts included in a number of instructional materials and evaluated by state education agency personnel and homemaking teachers, this framework is designed to aid the teacher in planning local homemaking programs and in developing local curriculum guides. Vocational home economics in Texas consists…

After a two-week introductory period, participants in the Unified Studies Program at Boston State College will engage in a study of eight important institutions chosen by students at a planning session in November. Each institution will be dealt with for one full week. After the spring vacation, small groups (4 or 5 people) will engage in…

This final report contains a fourteen-page narrative and appended materials of phase 1 of an Illinois project to provide up-to-date comprehensive sequential home economics materials for use in grades 6-12. These activities are reported: development of an annotated bibliography of curriculum guides, extensive literature searches related to…