Abstract
The purpose of this study is to make clear the consciousness and actual conditions on selfactualization. economic independence and occuptinal readiness among senior high school students. In addition, the study aims to pursue the educational contents in Home Economics Education. This investigation was conducted on 1,166 senior high school sudents from November or 1999 to January of 2000. The results are as follows : 1) Senior high schoo tudents have attitudes toward achieving their own self-actualization, becoming economically independent, and decision-making for their own occupational choices. However, they lack the fundamental knowledge and concrete concents of economics, housekeeping management, and occupations. 2) The consciousness of self-actualization among students is related to their orientation to economic independence and occupational readiness. The following task for us will be to develop a curriculum and classes that examine issues based on the findings from this survev.
