In order to find out the teaching material developments, we investigated the conception on homemaking education among female students, male students, and teachers in junior high school. Percentages of them who recognized the importance of homemaking education increased in the following order : male students, female students, and teachers. Percentages of them who supported the present homemaking co-education were 30.7% of the male students, 44.8% of the female students, and 49.0% of the teachers. All students thought that important contents learned in homemaking education were the manner and household work; the latter was strongly supported by female students. On the other hand, teachers thought that they were consumer education, the attitude toward housework, environmental education and vitality of life. By the factor analysis, the backgrounds of their selected contents were clarified.
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