MATERIAL IN THIS GUIDE IS FOR TEACHER USE IN TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR FOOD SERVICE WORKERS. IT WAS ORGANIZED AND WRITTEN BY A CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT SPECIALIST FOR MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT TRAINING (MDT) ASSISTED BY INSTRUCTORS IN THE FIELD. THE GENERAL OBJECTIVE IS TO DEVELOP ABILITIES, UNDERSTANDINGS, ATTITUDES, AND INTERESTS NEEDED FOR ENTRY LEVEL…

Abstracts of research studies in vocational education provide a source of information for the researcher, the teacher, and the education community. Included are 48 masters' reports and theses in agriculture and home economics education completed at the Kansas State University during the period 1963 through 1968. The purpose, methodology, and…

The purpose of this study was to obtain information for a comparison of home economics curricula. A representative sample of home economics units offering at least a BA degree were surveyed and institutional catalogs were reviewed. The questionnaire sought data on: numbers of undergraduate and graduate majors enrolled in Fall 1968; distribution of…

Carpets, laundry, parenting, cooking, sewing notions, and health word search puzzles are presented; answers are included. (TA)

Because of an acute shortage of qualified personnel in home economics, there is need for better utilizing auxiliary personnel. (BC)

A fiction story describing a new teacher's experience with a difficult class during a supervisory observation. (RB)

Sketches the origins and growth of consumer education and presents results of a survey to determine priorities for the objectives of consumer education. (SK)

After a discussion of the causes and results of adolescent stress, the authors suggest possible topics which home economics teachers could address in their curricula. These include developmental and transitional life stages, stress reactions, recovery from loss and grief, death, divorce, teen pregnancy and abortion, child abuse, rape, and others.…

The Witkin Group Embedded Figures Test and the Kolb Learning Style Inventory categorized 132 home economics students into learning style categories. All students tended to share the same predominant cognitive learning styles. The major style shown was that of diverger. (Author)

Intent statements of 795 parent education programs were analyzed for identification of the valued end discussed in the statement and the intended object for the valued end. Results are discussed regarding implications for applying the methodology to other areas of home economics and to the study of the valued ends field. (JOW)