Teaching home economics by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Home economics
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Published: 1919-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER DC

HOMB ECONOMICS IN OTHmt ORGANIZATIONS WHICH CONTRIBUTB TO THE SDUCATION OF THE OIRL!

L Organizations other than schoob which contribute to the education (rf the girl along lines of Home Economics. ,

A. Rdigious and philanthropic organizations.

B. Welfare work in facUnries and department stOTea. \

C. Girl Scouts.

D. Camp Fire Girls.

E. Girls'dubs.

F. Junior Red Cross.

Organizations other than schools wUch contribute to the education of the girl along lines of Home Economics. — It would be difficult, indeed, for the wide-awake girl of to-day to pass through life with no appreciation of the relation of the home to the welfare of the nation; with no inspiration toward the improvement of her own home and toward her own responsibility in accomplishing these better home conditions. Not only does the school offer work in Home Economics, but all organizations which have as their aim better and more efficient womanhood include as part of their program either specific courses in Home Economics or the stimulus for attaining skill and working principles in relation to the home and its activities.

Perhaps to no teacher of Home Economics comes remuneration <rf greater satisfaction than that which came to Miss Mabel I^de Kittredge, the head of the Housekeeping Center Association in New York City, in the establishment of a new home by one of her pupils who patterned it after the '' model fiat" in so far as she was able.

It is an important part of all instruction in this field to project

the ideals and processes into the actual present home experience

of the girk; for only through such results can home economics

♦^•i4ifng be justified mud wortliy of future devdc^nneot. Further discaMwimi of this phaae of the subject will be found in Part IV. It is sufBdeot to say at this pc»nt that ^)ecial effc^ should be nuMle by every teadier to understand the home conditions of the girb in her dassesy and to encourage free discussion of home problems as part ot the regular dass wori^. It is a tragedy worthy of note diat a teadier of home management in a dty high sdiool found cause for annoyance in the bet that the girb in her dasses were not omtent with a lecture course, but insisted on general

It win readily be seen diat in all t^wJiing ot Home EccMXHnics a dasBEOCMn acquaintance with the girls'homes will not be adequate. Provisicm should be made f(v home visiting on the part of the teadier; and this phase of the work must lose its formality if it b to be <rf the greatest value. Definite time should be planned f<v this ccmtact with home conditioi». This apjdies to the t^itu^ting of Home Eccmomics under sdiod direction as wdl as the work in settlements and girb' dubs.

The war has played no small part in promoting the educational work <rf organizations other than sdioob in the fidd of Home Economics. Although it was wdl started before our own country entered the conflict, the work of the extension fidd was greatly stimulated by the great need for food production, and food and dftthing conservation.

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