Construction of a Career Education Model in Home Economics

Abstract

In Home Economics, the theme that men and women build life styles taking a view of home life and vocational life is important. In recent years, the introduction of career education has been proposed and the career education model has been constructed by Japanese educators. However they did not refer to career education in school subjects. After the analysis of American Home Economics textbooks, the authors of books regarded career to have a broader meaning than occupation or vocation, and realized that career involves a view of home, vocational and community life. The textbooks aimed at nurturing the ability of self-understanding, human relations, information gathering and applying, decision making and career planning, relating to concrete occupations. With reference to the textbooks, the researcher constructed a career education model and examined the possibility of career education in Home Economics. Programs of teaching remain to be developed and practiced from the view point of career guidance and sogo-gakushu.