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Harris, Fred – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2012
Dewey proposed a new theory of language, in which the form (such as symbols) and content of language are not separated. The content of language includes the physical aspects of the world, which are purely quantitative: the life process, which involves functional responses to qualities, and the human life process, which involves the conscious…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Grammar, Social Change, Democracy
Nevada Department of Education, 2008
Meeting the Housing and Interior Design Standards will provide students with skills for personal family life and towards becoming a professional in the interior design field. The mission of Housing and Interior Design education is to prepare students for family life, work life, and careers in the fashion industry by creating opportunities to…
Descriptors: Interior Design, Housing, Clothing, State Standards
Rathmann, Carl G. – United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1915
In St. Louis, Missouri, the teachers are given excellent opportunities to put their pupils in touch with the world around them. Entering a school-room during a geography lesson, the visitor may find that the children, after a thorough study of the relief map, are transported into the country which is the subject of their lesson. They have before…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Museums, Geography, Geography Instruction
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Matthews, Judith; Quattrocki, Carolyn – Journal of Home Economics, 1981
Describes a seminar in which undergraduate students in home economics were provided with research training and the opportunity to work together on a research project which included housing, clothing, nutrition, consumer services, child development, and family relations. Students also explored difficulties international students encounter in…
Descriptors: Child Development, Clothing, College Environment, Consumer Education
Everts, Joanne; Eads, Sally – 1979
A study was conducted to research and develop a statewide project for the improvement of home economics teacher education programs in Texas. The steering committee, composed of representatives from the Texas Education Agency, colleges and universities, and public school districts, directed a select group of forty-five state, area, and local home…
Descriptors: Child Development, Clothing Instruction, Competency Based Teacher Education, Consumer Education
Caputo, Colleen C.; Haymore, Judy – 1981
Increasingly, educational evaluators are using studies of individual students in a program, reporting their academic and community background, dimensions of the program in which they were enrolled, and the benefits to the students after completing or leaving the program as a measure of the success of the programs. The case studies in this…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Case Studies, Child Development, Clothing Instruction
John, Walton C. Ed. – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1925
At the beginning of the decennium 1910-1920 specialized courses in home economics were maintained in the land-grant institutions in the New England states, except Massachusetts, and Connecticut; in New York, at Cornell University; in Pennsylvania at Pennsylvania State College, and all of the states north of the Ohio River and west of the Allegheny…
Descriptors: Females, College Graduates, Child Welfare, Land Grant Universities