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Calvin, Henrietta W.; Lyford, Carrie Alberta – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1919
Progress in home economics education has been marked in recent years. To the normal rapid increase in the number of high schools offering courses, the extension of systematic training in home making into the lower grades, the establishment of new courses in liberal arts colleges, and the more adequate support of departments previously organized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Home Economics Education, Home Economics
Andrews, Benjamin R. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
Part I of the report on "Education for the Home" (Bulletin 1914, No. 36) consisted of an introduction and summary for the investigation together with a list of equipment for household arts instruction; Part II (Bulletin, 1914, No. 37) described in detail education for the home in respect to State legislation, elementary schools, high schools,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Home Economics Education, Home Economics Skills
Andrews, Benjamin R. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1914
In America, the home is the most important of all institutions. In the home, children receive the most important part of their education. It is there that physical, mental, and moral health is established. The experiences of home constitute the raw material of education. The character and the teaching, conscious or unconscious, of the home…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Home Economics Education, Home Economics Skills
Calvin, Henrietta W. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1923
Home economics education includes not only that instruction in household arts and sciences which is given in elementary and secondary schools and universities, colleges, and normal schools, but it also includes that which is taught through correspondence and extension courses. The major topics in home economics education are discussed in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Extension Education, Elementary School Students
Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior, 1931
This chapter of the "Biennial Survey of Education in the United States, 1928-1930" focuses on the following topic areas as they relate to homemaking education: Part I: Present trends, contains the following: (a) Contributions rendered; (b) Philosophy changes; (c) Expansion of home economics in our public schools; (d) Home economics required; (e)…
Descriptors: Educational History, Home Economics Education, Occupational Home Economics, Home Economics Teachers