Home Economics yesterday, today and tomorrow

1. Home Economics :
Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow
HISTORY OF
HOME
ECONOMICS

2. Hello!
I am ________
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3. History of Home
Economics
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5. 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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6. 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.

8. 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.

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➝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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11. which gave birth
to the home
economics
movement in 1889
Lake Placid Conferences
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12. 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.

13. ➝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…

16. A glimpse into a midcentury home economics class.

17. 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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18. 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

19. 1993
American Home Economics
Association was changed to
American Association of Family and
Consumer Sciences during Scottsdale
Conference in Scottsdale Arizona

21. 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

22. 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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23. For 20 years,
Domestic training had
flourished in Filipino
Schools starting with
“ Sewing, cooking and
housekeeping.”
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24. 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

25. 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

26. 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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