In home economics education, acquiring readiness for parenting skills is an important subject. This study discusses how the images of female students toward children are affected by their human relationships. A questionnaire was given to female college students who hud jusl graduated from high school. The results showed that : 1. Most of them have positive images of children, though 1/4 of them have rather negative images. 2. The subjects who have negative images of children generally think less about their own future family life, get more irritated with their family and don't think their family members understand each other and they do not communicate adequately. It is hard for them to recall who guided them strietly or who was warm-hearted. 3. Having reliable friends is one of the important factors related to positive images of children, as well as having had experience in caring for infants. 4. It is suggested that the human relations around those who have negative images of children are poor both in quality and in quantity. Therefore, having human relations in which family members or friend either sympathize with the subjects and guide them is related to having positive images of children.

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The purpose of this study is to make clear the consciousness and actual conditions on selfactualization. economic independence and occuptinal readiness among senior high school students. In addition, the study aims to pursue the educational contents in Home Economics Education. This investigation was conducted on 1,166 senior high school sudents from November or 1999 to January of 2000. The results are as follows : 1) Senior high schoo tudents have attitudes toward achieving their own self-actualization, becoming economically independent, and decision-making for their own occupational choices. However, they lack the fundamental knowledge and concrete concents of economics, housekeeping management, and occupations. 2) The consciousness of self-actualization among students is related to their orientation to economic independence and occupational readiness. The following task for us will be to develop a curriculum and classes that examine issues based on the findings from this survev.

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The aim of this study is to develop a curriculum where sutdents will b able to consider the way to live from many aspects in homemaking in junior high. This curriculum consists of 12 periods with many practical and experimenal activities so that students will be able to think about how to live and and cope with people and their environment. An "Image Map" method is used to evaluate the study. Two phrases are whown to students : "comfortable living"and "safe living". Students write words that they imagine from those phrases and they were evaluated by the amount of vocabulary and the content. Through this study we obtained the following results : 1 By going through this curriculum. students became capable of describing a house with many specific words. 2 Students came to consider safe house not only from the point of natural disasters but also from living in the house itself.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the evaluations about the lessons of "Town Planning" that were developed and put into practice in senior high school home economics classes. Lessons were evaluated on the basis of the results obtained from a questionnaire given to students, and on the contents of students' presentations made to government officials and other students. The results are as follows : 1. Most students studied the viewpoints of comfort and safety of human life. 2. Students were dissatisfied by not having enough time to discuss and review their own town plans. 3. Most students were interested in this lesson and learned positively. 4. In "Town Planning" education, cooperation with experts and local government is necessary.

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The purpose of this study is to examine and practice the development of lesson on "Town Planning" based on rcsidents' viewpoint and to contribute to the development of "Town Planning" study in the future. This report examines overall lesson development from the study process of individual groups. the opinions and comments「rom students in the class, the teacher in charge of the class, and teachers observing the class. As a result, affirmative opinions were obtained regarding this entire lesson. From the examination of individual group lessons, it was observed that the following five processes greatly minfluenced the formation of values as a self-actualized person. 1. individual advice by teacher 2. hearing opinions of other people 3. fieldwork 4. class discussion at midterm presentations 5. group discussion The following four points are suhhested as future tasks. 1. enhancement of "overall study" including correlations with other subjects 2. securing time by utilizing this "overall study" 3. development of teaching methods and content variation tailored to students characteristics 4. support of teacher quality improvement and reduction of teachers' burdens in extra curricular activities The following tasks will be for us to improve leading methods and to implement these improvements.

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