The Principle of the Curriculum Composition and Its Characteristics Analyzed and Extracted from a Primary School Homemaking Program Developed by the State of New Jersey in the U.S.:

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  • NOBUKIYO Akiko
    Primary School Attached to Faculty of Education, Okayama University
  • SATO Sono
    Graduate School of Education Okayama University

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  • 米国N.J. 州初等家庭科プログラムにみられる家庭科の性格とカリキュラム構成原理
  • 米国N.J.州初等家庭科プログラムにみられる家庭科の性格とカリキュラム構成原理 : 小学校低学年からの家庭科学習の論理的可能性の検討
  • ベイコク N.J.シュウ ショトウ カテイカ プログラム ニ ミラレル カテイカ ノ セイカク ト カリキュラム コウセイ ゲンリ : ショウガッコウ テイガクネン カラ ノ カテイカ ガクシュウ ノ ロンリテキ カノウセイ ノ ケントウ
  • The Examination of the Feasibility of a Study Home Economics Course for Lower Elementary School Grades.
  • ― 小学校低学年からの家庭科学習の論理的可能性の検討 ―

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The purpose of this research is to show the feasibility of a course in Home Economics for lower elementary school classes in Japan. In this report, the Home Making program (HMP) developed in the United States was selected for the fact that its Home Economics curriculum was developed for all years from kindergarten to elementary six. The characteristics and composition principles for the lower elementary school classes of HMP were analyzed and clarified. The HMP showed that U.S. and Japanese view was different, that “the subject of Home Economics should not be taught until the 5th or 6th year of elementary school” even though its homemaking curriculum for primary school was organized or based on the aim and principles of the subject were for all primary school years. This curriculum was based on the following principles: the problem of the wellbeing of individual citizens in a democratic society regardless of the age of the child. The problem was resolved by using the Home Economics subject. First, the children’s developmental goals were extracted from the results of each study. Next, these results were collated with the purpose and the content of the primary school education. The children’s developmental goals that had to be achieved for Home Economics by the end of each school year were accomplished. To achieve those children’s developmental goals, the concepts clarified in each field of research for Home Economics was organized into a dual curriculum structure considering the contents of primary school for all school years. During the class, the developmental goals concepts were created to be achieved through study based on the experience of the child who had attempted to understand the relationship with another subjects. Finally, this Home Economics curriculum created the composition concept “An Independent Citizen”, to correlate with each school year in order to acquire those concepts through the Home Economics class.

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