Abstract
The authors' aim is to consider the direction of welfare education in home economics. This study examined the following three points to study welfare education in home economics. (1) Reviews of welfare education research in Japan from the point of experience and of welfare education research in home economics. (2) Analysis of practical reports about welfare education in home economics and suggestions about issues in practical classes. (3) The direction of welfare education in home economics classes, which include experiences. The results were as follows. Learning about welfare problems in society and having relationships with the problems are the most important issues in welfare education. A recent main point is improving practice in experiential classes and especially important is how to learn about local problems. The experience in daily life is also important in welfare education in home economics. From the authors' analysis, practical classes, which include both contact experience and para-experience, are effective for students, because they learn to think about and resolve problems around them. The direction of welfare education in home economics classes is concerned about the issues in daily life. Students can discover issues on the daily life level and challenge them.
