Home Economics

Bring back home economics education.

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The Nuffield Home Economics project.

3. Fibres and fabrics. Materials and their properties; the importance of textiles in daily life from bandages to car tyres; the principles behind textiles, dress and fashion (Nuffield Home Economics, 1983a,b,c). 4. People and homes. Homes as shelters and ways of meeting individual and family needs; the scientific principles underlying the effective and economic management of the home and its eq...

What Happened to Home Economics ?

of the Home Economics Institute of Australia

The Internet is ‘no longer a curiosity, but part of the landscape’ (Dancer, 2000, p.60). Its growth rate has been phenomenal. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, by May 2000, 54 per cent of all Australian households had a home computer and 33 per cent of households were connected to the Internet. This paper examines who uses the Internet and for what purposes, and addresses associ...

Nutrition and home-economics programme in Egyptian villages.

In 1953 the Government of Egypt and F A 0 jointly undertook a demonstration project in agriculture, rural industries, nutrition and home economics, the object of which is to improve the standard of living of the Egyptian village population. The sponsoring ministry for the Government was the Ministry of Agriculture. Five villages in the Nile Delta about 45 km north-west of Cairo were selected fo...