Abstract
This paper aims to study an ideal of textbook for homemaking education in general education. This is referred to Swedish textbook for ground school. The author emphasized that contents for homemaking education should have internationalization, house of the handicapped and diversity. They might have various and real articles of family of homeland in Southeast Asians who live in Japan and developing countries, if possible. Many public buildings in Japan were reformed for the handicapped after 1973. The house of them are suitable for the aged. As the aged increase in the near future, they ought to have the sentence of house for the handicapped. The textbook of Japan are simple as minimum essentials. The third recommendation of the Extraordinary Council on Education in April in 1987 said that textbook should be diverse. The author suggests that textbook in Japan would have the character of reference book.
