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Direct linkGus Vouchilas; Connie Ulasewicz – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2024
According to the authors, the apparel and retail industries are integral to our lives, yet they contribute to environmental issues from discarded clothing items that still have life within them. Gen Z and Millennials today are at the forefront of the pre-worn apparel movement, often documented as thrift shopping. This shift from new to pre-worn…
Descriptors: Clothing, Pollution, Ecological Factors, Family and Consumer Sciences
Download full textOdnoroh, Halyna – Online Submission, 2019
The article presents key competencies as a complex of important qualities of a modern specialist, which are required for successful professional performance, self-realization and full-fledged life of an individual. The relevance of the topic is caused by the rapid growth of requirements for a skilled worker, the interest of modern entrepreneurs in…
Descriptors: Sewing Instruction, Needle Trades, Job Skills, Competence
Ekstrom, Anna; Lindwall, Oskar; Saljo, Roger – Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2009
This article concerns a central issue in education as an institutional activity: instructions and their role in guiding student activities and understanding. In the study, we investigate the tensions between specifics and generalities in the joint production of guided action. This issue is explored in the context of handicraft education--or more…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theory Practice Relationship, Handicrafts, Teacher Student Relationship
Peer reviewedDurack, Katherine T. – Technical Communication: Journal of the Society for Technical Communication, 1997
Investigates the design history of women's household sewing patterns as that history is recorded in United States Patent Records. Finds that the history of home sewing patterns illustrates a key aspect of usable design: the interrelationship between a device and its documentation and the way changes to both enhance overall product usability. (RS)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Clothing, Patents, Sewing Instruction
Brailsford, Amelia T. – 1982
The South Carolina Office of Vocational Education directed the development of a set of curriculum materials for industrial sewing courses as a resource tool for South Carolina teachers. The materials consist of 20 individualized self-instructional modules, a glossary of terms, and a teacher guide. During the 1981-82 school year, the Research…
Descriptors: Field Tests, Instructional Materials, Learning Modules, Needle Trades
Brailsford, Amelia T. – 1982
A project was conducted to evaluate the industrial sewing instructional materials used in South Carolina secondary home economics programs to determine the extent to which they enabled students to achieve the cognitive performance skills and tasks incorporated in the curriculum. Procedures used in the evaluation were the following: (1) the first…
Descriptors: Educational Planning, Formative Evaluation, Home Economics, Instructional Materials
