2001 Volume 44 Issue 3 Pages 189-199
This is a series of studies aimed at grasping the totality of home economics educators' visits to the United States as National Leaders from GARIOA funds and at considering their influence on the development of homemaking education in Japan under Occupation. The purpose of this first report is to give an outline of home economics educators' visits to the States and to make it clear that National Leaders' visits were an important part of educational policy for Occupied Areas. After examining GHQ/SCAP, CIE Records, the main points are as follows : 1. Dispatching National Leaders to the States was carried out under educational policy for Occupied Areas by the CIE in accordance with the recommendations of the "Report of the Educational Exchange Survey to the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers". 2. Home economics educators dispatched to the State as National Leaders were engaged on 5 projects and consisted of 17 people. They included staff of the Ministry of Education, a university official, faculty members, teacher consultants, a princpal of senior high school and homemaking teachers. 3. According to the objectives set by the CIE, 17 home economics educators took past in study tours for 90 days between February 1950 and December 1951.
