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Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. Home Economics Curriculum Center. – 1983
Designed for use in consumer and homemaking education in Texas, this curriculum guide is on the subject of home management and consumer education. An introduction to the guide, covering its use and program and curriculum planning, provides a list of suggested reading. Information on teaching handicapped and disadvantaged students follows. The…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Career Exploration, Competency Based Education, Consumer Education
Download full textNational Evaluation Systems, Inc., Amherst, MA. – 1982
The effectiveness of Georgia's comprehensive high school consumer and homemaking educational programs in providing competence in six essential skill areas was studied. Respondents were selected from all Georgia high school graduates from 1978-79 who had participated in at least one consumer and homemaking education course. Survey findings showed…
Descriptors: Competence, Consumer Education, Educational Research, Graduate Surveys
Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Instructional Materials Lab. – 1983
These materials for the curriculum area of economics and managing resources comprise one of six such packages that are part of the Ohio Vocational Consumer/Homemaking Curriculum Guide. The curriculum area or perennial problem taken up in this document is divided into three practical problems about what to do regarding: (1) decision making; (2)…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Citizen Participation, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Enlow, George; And Others – 1979
Records maintained by rural extension designees on the Missouri Small Farm Family Program, (initiated in 1972 by the cooperative extension service to help low income farm families learn to use available resources to improve their quality of life) provided data re: family characteristics, farm improvement progress, and improvement in the quality of…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Economic Status
Oklahoma State Dept. of Vocational and Technical Education, Stillwater. – 1975
Intended for use by high school teachers of vocational home economics in Oklahoma to aid in local planning and developing of a nonrepetitious core curriculum to prepare students for home economics-related occupations and their roles as consumers and homemakers, this curriculum guide covers the entire course program for the high school years. Three…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Planning, Consumer Education, Course Content
Regional Learning Service of Central New York, Syracuse. – 1975
Faculty representatives from five postsecondary institutions having human service/human ecology programs and two members of the Regional Learning Service staff comprised a task force whose objectives were to identify competencies acquired through home management which relate to undergraduate course objectives, to recommend ways to assess these,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making Skills, Experiential Learning
Community Services Administration (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1972
This training manual is designed to help in the training of women for homemaker service. The material specifies what will be most meaningful to the homemaker trainees in their daily work as well as to give insights into the larger problems of families in trouble and to advance the goals of the homemaker service. In connection with the trainee…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Care, Child Rearing, Family Life Education
Chastain, Marsha; Glendenning, Owen – 1987
This third project of "The Museum Connection" is designed for sixth grade students and is devoted to New Harmony, Indiana's first utopian community (1814-24). Eight lesson plans include information on materials needed and activities. Goals include: (1) to compare and contrast modern-day New Harmony to Harmonie, Indiana in 1816; (2) to…
Descriptors: Construction (Process), Cross Cultural Studies, Family Life, Grade 6
McCarron, Lawrence; And Others – 1982
The curriculum guide was designed to teach prevocational and independent living skills to students with a wide range of handicapping conditions. The SSSQ (Street Survival Skills Questionnaire) curriculum presents information on objectives, materials, suggested performance criteria, teacher strategies, and specific students activities for the…
Descriptors: Adaptive Behavior (of Disabled), Basic Skills, Communication Skills, Daily Living Skills
Mankoski, Linda C. – 1978
Developed for use in the academic communication classroom of a middle school for the deaf, this student workbook is designed to reinforce the vocabulary and skills presented by the pre-vocational teacher in three areas of home economics: basic cooking, home care, and basic sewing. Each section contains new word lists, short stories, comprehension…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Cooking Instruction, Deafness, Equipment Maintenance
Chicago Public Schools, IL. – 1963
THE OVERALL IDEA HELD IS THAT THE FUNCTION OF HOME ECONOMICS IS TO HELP STUDENTS IDENTIFY AND DEVELOP THOSE FUNDAMENTAL COMPETENCIES THAT WILL BE EFFECTIVE IN THEIR PERSONAL AND FAMILY LIVING. A STRUCTURE AND FRAMEWORK UPON WHICH A TEACHER MAY ESTABLISH AN EFFECTIVE HOMEMAKING PROGRAM FOR 7TH- AND 8TH-GRADE GIRLS AND, AT THE SAME TIME, MAKE THE…
Descriptors: Child Care, Clothing Instruction, Curriculum Guides, Eating Habits
PARKER, RONALD K. – 1968
DESCRIBED ARE THE COMPONENTS OF PROJECT KNOW HOW (PKH), AN OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM. DESIGNED TO ATTACK INDIVIDUAL FAMILIAL POVERTY, PKH INVOLVES A PRESCHOOL TRAINING PROGRAM BEGINNING IN THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE AND CONTINUING TO SCHOOL AGE, A SALARIED ASSISTING MOTHERS PROGRAM, A FATHER'S PROGRAM, AND A FAMILY HEALTH…
Descriptors: Achievement, Child Development, Data Collection, Evaluation Methods
Shipley, Anna Frances – 1967
The purposes of the study were: (1) to identify the tasks performed by the employees in homemaker/home health aide, hotel/motel housekeeping aide, and nursing home housekeeping aide occupations, (2) to determine the frequencies of task performance by the worker, (3) to determine tasks common and unique to the three occupations, and (4) to develop…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Employer Attitudes, Employment Qualifications, Home Economics Skills
Linden, Janice – 1973
The course examines the tools, materials, and basic principles used in reupholstering furniture. Techniques involved in using equipment, dismantling furniture, constructing the foundation, making the muslin cover, planning and preparing the platform and covering, and attaching loose wood panels are some of the operations dealt with in the course.…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Course Content, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Guides
Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation, Inc., Hartford, CT. – 1994
This learning guide is designed to connect personal, family, and job responsibilities for adults and out-of-school youth in economically depressed areas of the state (including transitional ex-offenders and corrections populations) so that these individuals learn to manage and balance these aspects of their lives in order to prepare for or…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Competency Based Education, Consumer Economics
