Home Economics: Then & Now

Back then, around the 1930s, it was known as Domestic Science

Today, it is known as Home Economics: Food Studies & Consumer Studies

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1.Dietary Planning   2. Food Groups

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 3. Food Management 

 

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4.  Diet-Related Disease

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5.  Management of Resources

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6.  Consumer Rights and Responsibilities

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7.  Making Product Choices

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8. Sewing !

In my own words, H.E. is not plain cooking and sewing, it’s an integration of Science (Food), Nutrition, Economics & Management. At the same time, it instils life’s values that our learners will remember for the rest of their lives. In the process we can all grow to live well, happier, healthier and right.