Improving Home Economics Education: A Review of Factors Militating Inclusion of Home Economics Studies in Kenyan Secondary Schools

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...

Cognitive Economics A New Approach for Revolutionizing Economics Education in Iran

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate critically economics education in Iran within the framework of cognitive economics. For that the main problems dominating economics education have been explained and illuminated such as unsatisfactory national academic achievements, ignoring in part critical applied areas in economics, little progress and development in teaching economics during the last...