Applies performance-based criteria to professionalism. (MU)

The Environmental Home Economics Education project in Alaska has three goals: to incorporate environmental education in the home economics curriculum, to expand interest in environmental home economics, and to share gained knowledge and materials nationally. (Author)

The article describes seven innovative home economics projects. They are in the areas of child care development, fashion, consumer education, secondary school career education, and FHA/HERO contributions to the classroom. (AG)

As students of change, professional home economists need to know how the game is played and what the prizes are. (Editor)

FHAers show they can set priorities, make decisions, and help develop curriculum. (Editor)

Activities of the Home Economics Division at the American Vocational Association's 1975 Convention are summarized; addressed were the field's identity and image crises engendered by women's liberation and male chauvinism, and threats to significant Federal legislation in divisiveness, consequent exclusion from vocational education definitions, and…

Direct observation of workers in an occupation is the best source of input to performance goals, even in occupations involving the affective domain. (Editor)

As the number of working wives increase, research findings on the contributions of family members to household tasks become relevant for educators and psychologists in designing curriculum and understanding individual/family behavioral change. (EA)

An experiment in the employment of community aides to bring the home economics program closer to the lives of students and parents in low-income neighborhoods. (Editor)