Abstract
With the aim of considering the composition of educational content of home economics in
general education, this research conducted a structural analysis of home management study based
on the “TEEN GUIDE (7th Ed.)” and the “Atarasii Gijyutu,Katei,” which are U.S. and Japanese
textbooks used in junior high school home economics curricula.
As a result, it was found that the TEEN GUIDE, through a systematic study of scientific
knowledge, aimed at teaching children to be independent guardians responsible for managing their
lives. On the other hand, it was found that home economics in Japan is based on a principle
of systematic learning and organized as knowledge and techniques related to home life through an
empiricism, aiming at fostering an attitude of children as one member of the family,
Home economics must systematically construct scientific knowledge as its educational content,
as observed in TEEN GUIDE, if the field is to attain the objective of becoming a curriculum of
subject in general education
