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HOME-LIFE problems have become, under the impact of social and economic changes, increasingly complex and baffling, and among expedients employed in the United States for coping with the situation is the promotion of adult classes for home economics. Such classes are becoming increasingly important, and the Office of Education has issued a stimulating and helpful guide entitled “Home-making Education Programs for Adults” (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Pp. 126. 15 cents). A detailed discussion of principles and methods of instruction appropriate for communities of different types and the preparation of teachers and leaders is followed by illustrations drawn from various parts of the United States. As an example of the scope of the work of the classes, here is a list of headings taken from a Kansas leaflet for use by itinerant teachers: food for the family, clothing, child-care and development, home-management, care of the sick, shopping, home-planning and furnishing, hospitality in the home. The extent and character of the existing provision for such classes vary widely in different parts of the country, but the discussion reveals the existence of an increasing emphasis in American theory and practice on the necessity for “the extension of educational activities beyond the confines of the school building into the community”, involving acceptance by the public educational authorities of responsibility for provision of nursery schools and adult classes. The bulletin contains much that should interest household science schools, organizers of adult education and women's institutes.
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Adult Education in Household Science. Nature 144, 412 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144412b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144412b0