TLE Home Economics
TLE Home Economics
TLE Home Economics
Economics
Prepared by: Group 1
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Emerging as early as the 1880s, the goal of
home economics was not only to teach women ...
how to cook and sew, but also provided an
avenue for young women to attend college. It
was not until the early 1900s that home
economics became an organized area of study,
developed by Catherine Beecher and Ellen
Swallow Richards who founded the American
Association of Family and Consumer
Sciences.
Cooking
Since food preparation was central to homemaking,
cooking is one of the earliest disciplines in home
economics. Early home economics programs taught
women how to cook a balanced meal, and included
food safety and preservation. Additionally, they
studied how to properly set a table and learned how to
host meals, not only for their immediate families, but
for larger groups as well.
Child Development
In addition to cooking and nutrition, home economics
students were taught how to rear children. This included
learning about the stages of child development and how
to correctly respond to children at each stage. Today,
students who study family and consumer sciences still
learn child development, which has become so
significant that it is, in many places, it's own major.
Education and Community Awareness
Since women were the first educators for their children, teaching
them basic reading and math skills before they entered school, it was
significant for them to understand how best to teach these skills.
Though education and community awareness, which included moral
and ethical lessons, were originally a part of the home economics
education, it has become so significant today that elementary
education has branched into its own field of study -- but one that is
still dominated by women.
Home Management and Design
This area of study also included cleaning and
organization, which was significant because homemakers
were expected to keep the house clean and organized.
Today, individuals who study family and consumer
sciences use these skills to enter design fields where they
thrive as designers, decorators, organization gurus and
real estate staging experts.
Sewing and Textiles
This skill came in handy when clothing needed mending.
Because patterns require certain types of materials, an
understanding of textiles was useful. This element of the
traditional areas of home economics is still relevant
today as family and consumer science majors enter and
thrive in fashion design and merchandising fields.
Budgeting and Economics
In addition to cooking, child rearing, home planning and
sewing, home economics students learned how to
budget. Because women did all, or most, of the family
shopping, they were expected to understand how to
spend wisely and make the most judicious use of
available funds. Today, this traditional element of home
economics is still relevant in family and consumer
science programs as students learn to properly budget,
balance and invest income.
Health and Hygiene
This included sanitation, keeping the sick family member
fed and quarantined from the healthy, and at-home
treatments for common illnesses. Today, some family
and consumer science programs offer this information to
students, though it is not commonly its own area of study
any longer.
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