Home Economics : Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS

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History of Home Economics

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Catherine Beecher

➝One of the first to champion the Economics of running a home.➝ Argue for the importance of domestic life and sought to apply scientific principles to childbearing, cooking and housekeeping.➝ Treaties on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home.

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

➝was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Catherine and Harriet both were leaders in mid-19th century North America in talking about domestic science. They came from a very religious family that valued education especially for women.

The Morrill Act of 1862

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➝Propelled domestic science further ahead as land grant colleges sought to educate farm wives in running their households as their husbands were being educated in agricultural methods and processes.

“➝In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the land-grant schools, along with a few private institutions , established courses of instruction in what was generally called “domestic Science”

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“➝Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were early leaders offering programs for women.

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which gave birth to the home economics movement in 1889

Lake Placid Conferences

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Ellen Swallow Richards1842-1911

Who was the first woman to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later became the first female instructor. She started Home Economics

Movement.She focus on applying scientific

principles to domestic situations.

➝Late in the 19th century, Richards convened a group of contemporaries to discuss the essence of domestic science and how the elements of this discipline would ultimately improve the quality of life for many individuals and families.

A home economics class in 1911 in Toronto

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Oekology or the science of right living.

Euthenics, the science of controllable

environment

“Home economics" was ultimately chosen as the

official term in 1899.

Richards wanted to call this…

A glimpse into a midcentury home economics class.

Beginning in 1899

➝Richard, along with Melvin Dewey and other educators and activists, organized a series of annual gatherings that became known as the Lake Placid Conferences.➝these educators worked tirelessly to elevate the discipline, which was to become home economics, to a legitimate profession.

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Conference participants formed the American Home Economics Association ( AHEA). This organization effectively lobbied federal and state governments to provide funding for home economics research and teaching, including adult education work through agricultural extension services, leading to the rapid expansion of educational programs.

In 1908

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American Home Economics Association was changed to American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences during Scottsdale Conference in Scottsdale Arizona

American methods of instruction were ensured by bringing in hundreds of American teachers called Thomasites in 1901

Vocational training in housekeeping and household artswas made an important element of girls’ education in the Philippines

Elvessa Ann Stewart

A graduate of the University of Nebraska, she went to the Philippines as a teacher in 1913.Superintendent of Home

Economics in the Bureau of Education in Manila in 1929.

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For 20 years,Domestic training had flourished in Filipino Schools starting with “ Sewing, cooking and housekeeping.”

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1920➝Girls in grade 5 to 7 were required to devote 80 minutes a day to home economics activities which included: Cooking Sewing Housekeeping Sanitation Home Nursing Infant Care Food Selection Embroidery Lacemaking

During 1941…Every secondary girl was required to have at least one year of home economics before graduation.

Required subjects included nutrition and child care.

Teachers of Intermediate Home Economics were required to be graduates of the Philippine Normal School or the equivalent,which required 3 years of study beyond secondary level

Home Economics: Today and tomorrow

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Professionals continue to practice in many

venues including secondary teaching,

college and university teaching and research

and outreach through cooperative extension

programs.

K to 12 Program

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