A Research into the Women's Junior College Students' Consciousness on the Subject Matters concerning Both Science Education and Homemaking Education by Questionaire.

Abstract

Formerly, the author demonstrated that the understanding of scientific phenomena in everyday life is one of the important purposes of secondary education and that the cooperation between science education and homemaking education is necessary to achieve this purpose. In proof of this demonstration, a research into the consciousness of contribution of science education and homemaking education in upper secondary school to the scientific understanding of everyday life was carried out to women's junior college students by questionaire. Results obtained from the research study are as follows. (1) Generally speaking, homemaking education contributes to some degree to understanding of scientific phenomena in everyday life, but science education attains to the least degree in this field. (2) However, in regard to fundamental knowledge on the science of fuels and energy in the home, homemaking education gives less information to pupils than science education. (3) Pupils have a desire that cooperation between science education and homemaking education is indispensable to the instruction of the subject matters concerning fuels and energy.