A Study of Curriculum of Home Economics at High School

Abstract

This paper aimed to make a curriculum of high school Home Economics and to estimate the curriculum by surveying high school Home Economics teachers. The questionnaire 1 were sent to 320 high school Home Economics Teachers in Hiroshima prefecture, January, 1992 and 120 of them were collected. The questionnaire 2 were sent to 230 high school Home Economics Teachers in the whole country, March, 1994 and 84 of them were collected. The results were as follows: 1 As the results of questionnaire 1, the author made the curriculum of High School Home Economics. The curriculum were consisted of "human development" sequence and "life environment" scope in accordance with the paradigm shift of Home Economics. 2 In survey 2, 90.5% estimated introduction of "life environment" into the curriculum as excellent or satisfactory.