Abstract
This report is concerned with a survey of actual conditions and consciousness of industrial arts and homemaking teachers of shimane prefecture. Further examination are made on the problems exist co-education of industrial arts and homemaking teachers. The results were as follows : There were a few certificated teachers of industrial arts and homemaking. Especially, that's tendency was recognized industrial arts and homemaking teachers in a small scale school. They had charged with one or two school subjects except industrial arts and homemaking. Significant differences in desires for charge of co-education of industrial arts and homemaking were found between a certificated teacher and no one. Teachers with experience of co-education realized more, than those without it, that there is not much differences between boys and girls in their achievement. Especially, that's tendency was recognized teachers in technological areas. It was recognized that there were significant differences in view of home economics between teachers having more traditional sex-role perception and more democratic ones. Accordingly to these results, it seems that is important for the certificated teachers of industrial arts and homemaking to teach it's school subject even in the case of both small scale school and standard one, which are the distinctions in educational environment of shimane prefecture.
