家政学部の成立過程に基づく一考察

—日本女子大学を事例校として—

抄録

This paper examines the functioning of the home economics department, which was established as a faculty in a new university after the war. Based on the process of the establishment of the Faculty of Home Economics, the focus was on the position of “Home Economics Principles,” established on the philosophy of home economics. In addition, focusing on the transition of the department, the degree of faculty, the title of the doctoral thesis, which are the elements that constitute the home economics department, were analyzed based on the data derived from school. The focus of the analysis is to clarify that a structural problem exists “at the postwar home economics department, wherein the core is weak and the surroundings are strong.” As a result of the examination, it was found that the objective of the study was derived from the conventional home economics field and had deepened thereof.