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The study was designed to answer the following questions
1. What do eighth graders think is important in homemaking
classes?
2. Who do eighth graders believe should enroll in homemaking
classes?
3. What factors influence whether eighth graders take
homemaking?
4. How do eighth graders rate the importance of homemaking...
Every student has a creative potential. An atmosphere needs
to be maintained in the classroom that motivates and encourages the
student to use and to develop this potential. Evidence indicates that
teachers need help in freeing and in stimulating each student's creative
potential. A learning package on design principles was...
The purpose of this study was to assess the attitudes of students, teachers, and principals toward skills taught in consumer and
homemaking education. The sample included 35 principals, 58
teachers, and 272 students in Oregon secondary schools. Respondents'
attitudes were assessed by analyzing the data on the basis of the...
As with other areas of the curriculum home economics
tends to respond to the objectives of powerful interest
groups rather than to the work of recognized scholars and
the ideals of democracy.
The philosophical orientation of this study is derived
from the work of Jurgen Habermas, a dominant figure in...
The Oceanbook focuses on the ocean environment from the coastline to roughly 200 miles offshore, the limit of U.S. jurisdic-tion, and from Cape Mendocino, California, to Vancouver Island, British Columbia. We excluded the intertidal area of interest to low-tide beachcombers from the Oceanbook because this area is well covered in...