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Home Economics: Knowledge in Search of Design

Dept. of Practical Arts and Vocational-Technical Education, 309 Gwynn Hall, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211

Home economics is a subject area with an implied rather than an obvious struc ture. Although professionals are expected to interpret the field to clients in a somewhat uniform manner, considerable diversity exists among professionals applying home economics content. To assist practitioners in interpreting home economics subject-matter content more accurately, it is helpful to use a concep tual inquiry approach. The approach enables those who study the field to clarify common threads tying subject matter specialties to the basic concept of home economics. By using a structure designed to enhance the coherence of a field of study, researchers may clarify their understanding of the status of home econom ics' body of knowledge and its unique mission.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 19, No. 3, 252-258 (1991)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X9101900307


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