Home economics teachers are urged to develop a sensitivity to the environment and to their own values. Suggestions are made to help them incorporate environmental concerns into curricular units, with teaching ideas and examples for nutrition and consumer units. Teaching references and resources are listed. (AJ)

Mainstreaming is appropriate to home economics, where independent living skills are taught. Handicapped students can be integrated successfully into an already full and busy classroom. Suggestions to help teachers inexperienced in special education grow in acceptance and specific special education concept guidelines for necessary curriculum design…

Discusses the serious economic disadvantagement that accompanies aging, and outlines educational strategies to enlighten and prepare citizens for this social reality. (JB)

Discusses the development of an economics curriculum in relation to the limited social, political, and economic realities which form the framework of a school's operation. Considers what schools must do, are not allowed to do, can do, know enough to do, and cannot control. (KC)

This research investigated the influence of a teacher education program on students' affective personality growth. Both affective and cognitive measures proved to be significant predictors of probable success in teaching home economics. (Editor/TA)

Describes the construction of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) and simulation programs that use public domain and shareware programs to simulate economic controversies. Limitations of economics education are discussed, alternative curriculum development that utilizes controversies is explored, and the application of this CAI model to other…

Examines the economics course description in California's History-Social Science Framework (1988), discussing each of its five sections: fundamental economic concepts; comparative economic systems; microeconomics; macroeconomics; and international economics. Identifies economic skills students must learn and presents a game that teaches about…

Reports on a study of 1,119 students in introductory college economics courses to determine the impact of high school economics on student achievement. Finds that prior high school economics was positively and significantly related to students grades in both introductory microeconomics and macroeconomics courses. (CFR)

Discusses the activities of Junior Achievement of Georgia in its efforts to promote economic education. Describes programs developed on economics: a textbook, workbook exercises, a student company activity, computer based simulation, and a business consultancy. Explains the development of a curriculum for kindergarten through sixth grade and…

Asserts that international economics textbooks pay too little attention to the complexity of issues and problems facing individual nations. Describes a country report project included as part of a college-level international or development economics course. Provides two student instruction sheets and a sample country report. (CFR)

This collection of 23 papers delivered by a diverse array of participants at a conference on elementary/secondary economics instruction reflects a concern that U.S. students have limited understanding of how or why the U.S. economy operates the way it does. The papers included are: "Economic Education: Leading the Way to Educational…

This series of 12 short essays with teacher's guides is designed to provide secondary students with practical skills and knowledge of our economic system. Objectives are for students to: (1) identify basic concepts which underlie our economic system, (2) understand how systems operate, (3) analyze strengths and weaknesses of the economic system,…

UNITS ON MIGRANT ADULT EDUCATION, AND A UNIT ON ORGANIZING INFORMAL GROUPS OF MIGRANT WOMEN TO DISCUSS MAINTAINING AND IMPROVING THEIR TEMPORARY HOMES, ARE PRESENTED. THE GOALS OF THE UNIT ON EDUCATION FOR MIGRANT MEN ARE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE, BETTER HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, AND BETTER HANDLING OF RESPONSIBILITIES. THE MAIN DIVISIONS OF THE…

A SUMMER WORKSHOP WAS CONDUCTED IN 1965 TO PREPARE HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS TO CONDUCT TRAINING PROGRAMS IN THE FOOD SERVICE AREA TO (1) PREPARE OLDER HIGH SCHOOL AND POST-HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH TO BECOME COOKS FOR NURSING HOMES, DAY CARE CENTERS, HOMES FOR CHILDREN, AND SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAMS AND (2) DEVELOP CURRICULUM MATERIALS IN THE FOOD SERVICE…