2001 Volume 44 Issue 3 Pages 200-210
The purpose of this report and the following one is to make clear the process by which home economics educators visited the United States as National Leaders in connection with CIE, the Ministry of Education and the U. S. Office of Education. In this report the participation of CIE and ME in the selection of visiting persons is clarified. After examining GHQ/SCAP, CIE Records and Japanese documents, the main points are follows : 1. The planning of home economics educators' visits to the States as National Leaders and the selection of suitable people were done by the leadership of the CIE and the "Interchange of Persons Board". In fact they were influenced by the input of M. Williamson, a homemaking education consultant in the CIE. 2. The Ministry of Education asked both universities and boards of education in Japan to recommend people to be dispatched to the States. It also dispatched staff to the committee to select personnel for the exchange of persons program. After deciding on the visiting members, the Ministry of Education contacted, guided and assisted them. 3. Dr. Williamson intended to nurture 17 educators as future leaders of homemaking education in Japan by observing home economics education and family life in the States.
