Despite one subject, there is no license for "Industrial Arts and Home Economics".Teachers' license is granted separately as "Industrial Arts" and "Home Economics".On the basis of such special structure of this subject, the purpose of this study is to clarify how home economics teachers recognize problems in structure of Industrial Arts and Home Economics.Freelance answers on the demerit and merit of combined subject were analyzed.About 70% of respondents found demerit in the combination of Industrial Arts and Home Economics, especially in the difficulty of evaluation as one subject, and most teachers found problems as it was unreasonablly combinationed subject.Teachers found that students' achievement level in Industrial Arts and Home Economics did not always coincide, and evaluation points were also different.Because of teachers' different views of the subject, Industrial Arts teachers and Home Economics teachers found to collaborate with each other was difficult.Furthermore, teachers' arrangements were biased by teachers' gender.There was a tendency for male teachers to teach Industrial Arts and female teachers to teach Home Economics.

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The aim of this research was to examine an assessment of "Wolf Children" as a teaching material for child care education through the data for students' cognitive process.Design for this research was set up as a comparison between A-class students' cognitive process using the teaching material "Wolf Children" and that of B-class students using the teaching material "GENIE" to analyze students' cognitlve process as a group.The results were as follows :l It was fairly clear that both teaching materials interested students.2 It was shown that the teaching material "Wolf Children" was useful to help students understand human adaptability.There was a tendency that obscure information about their surroundings before Wolf Children were found disturbed the development of students' thinking.

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The aim of this research was to further examine an assessment of "Wolf Children" as a teaching material for child care education through data for students' cognitive process.This paper aimed to investigate the case-study and summarize the findings and outcomes of the assessment of "Wolf Children" as a teaching material. The analysis of showed that cruelty in the teaching material "GENIE" caused students to have sympathy for her. In conclusion, the problem of the teaching material "Wolf Children" was the obscure information about their surroundings before wolf children were found for the reason of disturbing the development of students' cognitive process.Methodology and analysis of students' cognitive process as a group and as a case-study proved to be useful.

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