変貌する社会における家庭科教育のめざすべき方向

抄録

Innovation has become characteristic of our society owing to the development of scientific technology. Its outcomes foretell the future of society. We are now confronted with two opposing possibilities, the way to Utopia and the way to Distopia, because of the greatness of the impact innovation has brought about. In such a situation, which of these to choose is to be considered seriously, if we wish to open a new era in human history. In this present paper, some pitfalls of innovation will be pointed out with respect to the relation between man and thing and between man and man, and the value of technology in modern times and the future direction of education based on it will be examined. Various factors of the impact of technology upon home life will be analyzed. Thus, the purposes of homemaking education in the coming society may be summarized as follows : 1. To grasp the exact meaning of democracy and make civilized home the nucleus of the human society, through the inquiry of actual problems concerning home life, so that the intellectual and cultural life of the people might be improved. 2. To reorganize homemaking into a new scientific subject directed to the education for human beings in place of that for women only.