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Peer reviewedVester, Nadine – Canadian Home Economics Journal, 1983
Defines food faddism, examines how people assess information for decision making, and looks at the psychological characteristics of faddist behavior. (Canadian Home Economics Association, 151 Slater Street, Suite 805, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5H3.) (SK)
Descriptors: Behavior, Consumer Education, Decision Making, Food
Peer reviewedMeszaros, Peggy S.; Cummings, Pamela – Journal of Home Economics, 1983
Discusses the history and role of home economics as it relates to the formation of public policy regarding the well-being of families. (JOW)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Consumer Education, Family Life, Home Economics
Cross, Aleene A. – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1986
Discusses vocational home economics over the past 30 years: the expansion from serving only high school girls to serving all persons; the addition of family relationships, consumer education, nutritional knowledge, and home economics-related occupations to the curriculum; and the impact of taxonomies of educational objectives, behavioral…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Family Relationship, Females, Nutrition
Peer reviewedHarris, Patricia Roberts – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1980
Presented are a series of five short essays on the topic of improving the health of Americans through nutrition education. The future demography is discussed as it relates to declines in sizes of households, more fast-food establishments, and increased needs for nutrition information. (SA)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Dietetics, Diseases, Federal Government
Schnittgrund, Karen P., Ed. – 1986
These proceedings contain the reports of almost 100 speeches, panel discussions, and workshops. The papers were presented on a variety of issues, including marketing research ethics, lifeline banking, information and the consumer, financial management, evaluating consumer education literature, consuming units around the world, the consumer and…
Descriptors: Advertising, Banking, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Goebel, Karen P., Ed. – 1983
These proceedings contain the texts of the papers presented at a conference on consumer interests. Addressed in the first series of concurrent sessions are the following topics: consumers' new economic positions, consumers' choices with respect to price and quality trade-offs, time value in consumption decisions, and consumer information issues.…
Descriptors: Advertising, Basic Business Education, Consumer Economics, Consumer Education
Download full textSimpson, Elizabeth J. – 1981
This paper utilizes knowledge gained from work on future issues related to families, the work of futurists on social trends and technological development, and recent studies in home economics to draw conclusions regarding what people will need to know in the 1980s and beyond to be intelligent consumers and effective homemakers. The first of six…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Children, Clothing
