Abstract
The Special Curriculum Committee organized by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to create basic guidelines for the new Course of Study in Japan, required working groups to elucidate the competencies that various subjects could afford to students. In Home Economics, the following four new perspectives were indicated across the entire learning contents: 1) Collaborate and live together, 2) Make lives healthy and safe, 3) Succeed and create culture of daily lives, 4) Form a sustainable society. In addition, the chart of the learning structure of problem solving were concretely displayed and the implementation of active deep learning methodologies in the lesson were encouraged. Innovative changes in the lesson structure of Home Economics are required wherein students may employ cognitive and practical literacy to improve the quality of their daily lives.
