On the Connection of Subject Matters between Chemical Education and Homemaking Education at Secondary Schools

Abstract

In this paper, the author analyzed the situation of the connection of subject matters in chemical education with those in homemaking education at secondary schools, and discussed the policy for the realization of the good relation between chemical education and homemaking education. It has been considered that chemical education stands on the basis of chemistry itself, and that homemaking education aims at the heightening of the level of techniques in home and the scientific understanding of everyday life. Scientific knowledge, especially chemistry, is necessary for the scientific understanding of everyday life, and this must be given through chemical education. Colloidal state is generally seen around us as some foods, detergents, fog, cosmetics, and so on. However, some of these materials appear as examples of colloidal state, and colloidal state is instructed with ferric hydroxide sol prepared by the hydrolysis of ferric chloride, in chemistry textbooks in Japan. This fact shows that the contribution of chemical education to homemaking education is very little. From the discussion mentioned above, the author came to the following conclusion. It is necessary to introduce chemical phenomena, which are seen in everyday life, as the teaching materials in chemical education at secondary schools. When these steps are taken, the relation between chemical education and homemaking education will be built.