家庭科教育と消費者教育 : 日米における考察

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The aim of the present paper is to review the contents and methods for teaching consumer education in home economics education in Japan and the U.S. Fourteen supplementary readers issued by Japanese local government agencies and four pilot programs developed by U.S. home economics educational specialists, were analysed. The results are as follows : 1. Japanese booklets uniformly allocated most of their space to providing factual knowledge on consumer goods. All, but one, were aligned for the use in the present framework of homemaking courses in schools, being far from developing a framework for teaching consumer education. 2. California, Massachusetts, and Colorado Consumer Education Curriculum were, on the whole, content-oriented, and proved to lay more emphasis on value-exploring and decisionmaking issues. North Dakota's Curriculum proved to be designed to enable learners to function as questioning, creative and critical consumers. 3. In integrating consumer education into homemaking courses in Japanese schools in the future, it is highly desirable that home economics educational specialists should take leadership not only in organizing materials to match the learners' interest and progress of development, but also in developing modules that would focus on the learners' processes of developing consumer abilities, skills and understandings rather than on their acquisition of information or content.
日本家庭科教育学会の論文
1977-12-31