The purpose of this study was to analyze the subject of "knowing oneself-from the standpoint of personal awareness-" in home economics textbooks published in the United States of America (U.S.A.), and to get suggestions for Japanese home economics education. The following items were analyzed in seven textbooks : tables of contents, keywords, indices, learning objectives, substances of the description and exercises. The results were as follows : 1. "Knowing myself" was placed at the beginning in six of the seven textbooks, the amount of description out of the total pages is 3.0%(18pages)∿23.0%(159pages). 2. The ten words that appeared most frequently are as follows : heredity, personality, environment, self-concept, self-esteem, development, needs, values, roles and family. 3. The learning objectives stressed the importance of expressing one's own opinions. 4. Exercises about personality appeared most frequently.
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