Family and Consumer Sciences Curricula: What Do Students, Parents, Faculty and Community Want?.

Pauley, Elizabeth D.

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ERIC Number: EJ537082

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Family and Consumer Sciences Curricula: What Do Students, Parents, Faculty and Community Want?

Pauley, Elizabeth D.

Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, v88 n2 p11-14 Sum 1996

A survey of 317 Pennsylvania middle school students, 237 parents, 29 faculty, 39 family/consumer professionals, and 19 community members indicated that the program teaches only 4 of adults' top 10 subject preferences and none of the top 3 (family, parenting, communicating). All four top subjects preferred by students (banking, sewing, child care, cooking) are taught. (SK)

Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Consumer Education, Course Content, Family Life Education, Home Economics Education, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools, Occupational Home Economics, Parent Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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