SUPPLY AND DEMAND DATA ON SECONDARY SCHOOL HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS IN NEW YORK STATE WERE FURNISHED BY QUESTIONNAIRE RESPONSES FROM 82 PERCENT OF 783 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS. FIVE HUNDRED REPLACEMENT TEACHERS AND 497 NEW TEACHERS WILL BE NEEDED DURING THE PERIOD 1964-68. CERTIFICATION STATUS AND EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND INFORMATION WAS FURNISHED BY…

A survey of 506 female home economists found that five factors influenced their choice of major: (1) the service ideal, (2) perceptions of personal roles, (3) secondary school home economics, (4) perception of home economics as "feminine," and (5) 4-H experience. Age-related variables were correlated with these factors. (Author/CH)

Undergraduate home economics degree-granting programs are becoming more and more diverse. This movement has led to considerable debate about whether the specialized programs are home economics and whether the graduates are home economists. This article reviews some of these issues and makes recommendations for curriculum planning. (Author)

Ideas for making the most of bulletin boards are offered for ten months (September-June). Objectives, teaching activities, and materials needed accompany reduced-scale illustrations. (TA)

A practicum course, "Family Functioning," is an attempt by the School of Home Economics at the University of Nevada to make its students more sensitive to people while offering general home economics subject-matter courses. The response from students and from the families involved has been encouraging. (AG)

The value of the program was the realization by the participants that they had a skill for which others would pay. They also gained practical experience in communication, record-keeping, and manners necessary in dealing with each other and with customers. (AG)

Applies performance-based criteria to professionalism. (MU)

Discusses the likely conversion of the United States to the metric system and the role of home economists in teaching the system to others. (SB)

Examines the relationship and suggests ways that this interdependence might be strengthened. (SB)

The home economics profession has long emphasized service to the family, but the ways and means are often in dispute. How do we serve families--directly or indirectly? To whom is our ultimate commitment--to the individual or even to society at large? Dr. Ray considers these and other aspects of professional involvement in this paper, originally…

Presents constructivist global education as the morally and ethically defensible position to hold and illustrates the need for continued research of a philosophical nature in home economics and home economics education. (Author)

Examines the educational ideals explicit in M. Brown's conception of home economics education and extends those dispositions and attributes in light of contemporary critiques in education. Discusses implications for practice and invites dialog. (Author/JOW)