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Evaluating the propriety of Learning Contents of Home Economics Area in Practical Arts Education

In order to evaluate the propriety of learning contents of home economics area in Practical Arts Education, this study analyzed the quantities and levels of them in textbooks, investigated their overlapping with the other subjects, and analyzed the contents of japanese home economics textbook for elementary students. 1. The Amount and level of contents of subunit ‘Knowing the importance of family’ in the ‘family life’ unit were few and low, and then they should be changed. 2. The contents of making the clothes were mainly included in the ‘clothing’ unit, and then the contents of selecting and managing the clothes should be introduced. 3. The contents of subunit ‘Balanced diets’ in the ‘food and nutrition’ unit should be examined by learning materials and constriction of contents. The contents of purchasing foods should be included. 4. The Amount and level of contents of subunit ‘Arranging materials’ in the ‘housing’ unit were few and low, and then they should be changed. And contents of the subunit of ‘Cleaning’ should be changed to the concrete and distinctive contents. 5. The Amount and level of contents of subunit ‘Managing porket money’ in the ‘consuming and managing resources’ unit were few and low, and were overlapping with them in social subjects. The contents of ‘Resources and environment’ should be constructed with the contents of the concrete and distinctive contents. In Conclusion, there are many practices of making things in learning contents of home economics area of Practical Arts, while there are little of contents about the management and selection, in spite of social changes. Therefore the former should be decreased, while the latter be introduced. And the introduction of the contents of traditional culture also should be discussed seriously. The contents of family life have to be changed to understanding the various family structures and having attitudes to recognize the variety of family. In Contents of managing and saving resources should be involved and making things with recycled materials be integrated with relating units in order to naturally be practiced in life.