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This study aims to develop future guidelines for home economics education in elementary, junior
high, and high schools, focusing on learning contents and activities, and students’ attitudes and abilities.
The analysis was based on three frameworks of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), three
directions in revisions of government curriculum guidelines, and the viewpoint of sustainable societybuilding.
For this purpose, a literature review of the current learning contents and activities implemented in
home economics classes was conducted. In addition, a questionnaire was conducted to investigate the
actual situations of students’ consciousness and attitudes.
The results indicate that learning contents should be interactive with the six concepts in three
frameworks of ESD, and fostering multifarious attitudes and abilities to discover and solve present
and future tasks for a sustainable society. Particular abilities are indicated to perceive their own selves
interacting with multifarious people, and to think in multifaceted and comprehensive ways in the
elementary schools, and to predict future of region and society for making plans in the junior high
schools. Particular attitudes are required to communicate and to cooperate with other people in the high
schools.
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