Abstract
The aim of the studies is to submit the information about home economics education related with the UNESCO Survey, in order to improve Japanese home economics education. The questionnaires were sent in May in 1968, to the national universities having department of education or home economics. In part 1, the responses to the items concerning curriculum development are analysed and compared with the results of the UNESCO Survey. The subjects are teachers of universities and teachers of primary and junior high schools affiliated to universities, who are engaged in home economics education.
The results are as follows.
The teachers' regard for home economics education at present is higher than that shown in the UNESCO report, but as to the future view of home economics is reversed.
They maintain objectives which improve human development and family life rather than material living conditions, which seems to make a contrast with the results of the UNESCO report.
They support the participation of boys as well as girls in home economics, not only at primary schools but also at junior and senior high schools.
University teachers consider home economics education more important than the teachers of primary and junior high schools.
