Abstract
Though more than twenty years have passed since homemaking was started as a subject to educate students in establishing a democratic home life, it is not possible to say the results of this education were successful. Our society and homes have been changing rapidly due to the progress of scientific and other advances, and the educational value of homemaking education and its own mission should be re-evaluated. This thesis is to determine whether better methods of homemaking education are possible by introducing and considering five theories on the essential qualities of this subject. It is the aims of the present education to educate rich humanity, abilities to adopt new situations, merit of an individual student, abilities to create and progress. It will be impossible to answer the questions of education if homemaking education does not recognize the essential qualities of the subject by distinguishing it from conventional and practical methods without theories.
