2. HOME ECONOMICS
also known a family and consumer sciences
➝ it is a field of education which concerns itself with management and
economics of the community and home.
➝ there are other names used for this subject such as:
Domestic Economy, Human Sciences and Home Science
3. HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS
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.
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
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
4. The Morrill Act of 1862 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”
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were early
leaders offering programs for women which gave birth to the home
economics movement in 1889 Lake Placid Conference
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911) 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
5. Richards wanted to call this…
Oekology or the science of right living.
Euthenics, the science of controllable environment
“Home economics" was ultimately chosen as the official term in 1899.
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.
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
1993 American Home Economics Association was changed to American
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences during Scottsdale Conference in
Scottsdale Arizona
6. HISTORY OF PHILIPPINES HOME
ECONOMICS
American methods of instruction were ensured by bringing in
hundreds of American teachers called Thomasites in 1901
Vocational training in housekeeping and household arts was
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.
7. For 20 years, Domestic training had flourished in Filipino Schools starting
with “ Sewing, cooking and housekeeping.”
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. 2
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
