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Download full textRogers, James Frederick – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1929
In the biennium 1926-1928 the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of modern physiology was celebrated. A tercentenary is an exceedingly small fraction of the time since man discovered the use of fire, invented clothes and houses, and began to huddle together under conditions which have rendered knowledge of hygiene imperative to his…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Health Education, Physical Education, Physiology
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
John, Walton C. Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
At the beginning of the decennium 1910-1920 specialized courses in home economics were maintained in the land-grant institutions in the New England states, except Massachusetts, and Connecticut; in New York, at Cornell University; in Pennsylvania at Pennsylvania State College, and all of the states north of the Ohio River and west of the Allegheny…
Descriptors: Females, College Graduates, Child Welfare, Land Grant Universities
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
Whitcomb, Emeline S. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1926
Home economics education during the past biennium has made notable progress in a number of directions. These directions include, among others, a clarification of the contributions of home economics to general education, to health education, to child care and welfare, and a reorganization of the curriculum, based on scientific evidence. This latter…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Home Economics Education, Occupational Home Economics
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
