The purpose of this study is to investigate the degree of learning interest in the curriculum of home economics for the middle and high school girls in korea and Japan, and to obtain the basic guidance for the improvement of the effect of home economics education. In this study korea and Japanese textbooks were compared and the questionaires were administered to 290 middle school girls and 270 high school girls in Chong-Ju, korea, and 261 middle school girls and 248 high school girls in Tokyo, Japan. The obtained data were analyzed by percentile and $\chi$$\^$2/-test. In comparision of the degree of interest in hand sewing and machine sewing korean middle school girls showed higher interest than the high school girls, on the other hand, in Japan, the high school girls were more interested. In the unit of making a simple clothes, the middle school girls of both countries were more interested than the high school girls, and the degree of interest of Japanese girls was higher than that of korean girls.

The Sequence of the Curriculum and the Contents of Textbooks on Family Life Field of Home Economics Subject in Primary, Middle and High School. The purpose of this study is to investigate the sequence of curriculum and the contents of textbooks in primary, middle and high school. The problems of this study are as follows. 1. Are the educational contents of Family Life field in primary, middle an high school specified in the contents of textbooks\ulcorner 2. What are the sequence of curriculum and the Contents of textbooks on Family Life Field of Home Economics subject in primary, middle and high school\ulcorner The study results given by the research on the educational contents of Family Life field and the sequence of the contents of textbooks of Home Economics subject in primary, middle and high school can be summarized as follows. 1. Are the educational contents on Family Life field in the primary, middle and high school specified in the contents of the textbooks\ulcorner The results are as follows 1〉Considering the sequence of educational contents on Family Life field in primary school, we can find out that the subject aims have relevance to those of the forth and fifth grade in primary school, and those of the forth grade in primary school are specified in the contents of curriculum of the forth grade and the contents of curriculum of the forth grade are specified in the textbooks for the forth grade in primary school. The subject aims of the fifth grade are specified in the contents of curriculum of the fifth grade and the contents of curriculum of the fifth grade are specified in the textbooks for the fifth grade. 2〉Considering the sequence of educational contents on Family Life field in middle school, we can find out that the subject aims have relevance to those of the first and second grade in middle school, and those of the first grade in middle school are specified in the contents of curriculum of the first grade and the contents of curriculum of the first grade are specified in the textbooks for the first grade in middle school. The subject aims of the second grade are specified in the contents of curriculum of the second grade and the contents of curriculum of the second grade are specified in the textbooks for the second grade.

The purpose of this study is to provide more efficient teaching method in teaching home Economics in High School. For this study, total 205 girls’high school students in the 2nd grade, among whom 103 students of 2 classes were in Chonju and 102 students of another 2 classes in Kunsan, were selected. Each one classes apiece of two areas were control group. Lessons on laundering were given to students in Chonju and lessons on arrangement of clothing were given to ones in Kunsan. The project Method of education was applied to the experimental group and the cramming system of education was applied to the control group. The difference of two groups were statistically analysed by t-test after the written examination, Practitude, creative ability and interest test. The results of this study are ; 1. The experimental group was higher in practical attitude, creative ability and interest than the control group. 2. Teaching through project method will give changes to the students’attitude toward their household affaires. 3. Teaching-learning method will be improved if lessons applied by project method is given, as the recognisable effect rises through the positive way of thinking and empirical method.

This study aims finding a desirable practical skill evaluation practice evaluation method and then improving student’s learning effect by analyzing the present state and the methods of practical skill evaluation in middle-high schools home economics education. Investigated persons are 250 of high schools home economics thachers(125) and middle schools home economics teacher(125) in Seoul, who are choosen by means of random sampling. The items analysis of questionnaires was performed by means of SPSS(Statistical Package for Social Science). The investigator analyzed their responses to the questionnaires according to teachers’ages, school careers, majors, places of employment, school years in charge. The results are marked with percentage and the significance level is verified by means of Chi-square(X$\^$2/) analysis method, when necessary. This thesis handles practical skill evaluation of general practice units, of clothing and textile unit, and of nutrient and food unit. The results obtained from the items analysis are as follows; I. Results of the items analysis. A. Practical skill evaluation of general units. 1. The motivation and accomplishment feeling of students are most frequently considered as the aims of practical skill evaluation, but the results of practical skill evaluation are, by contraries, most infrequently considered as improvement materials. 2. A greatest number of teachers make together with their colleagues an annual plan for practical skill evaluation an inform students of the concrete information of the test, but perform respectively practical skill evaluation, using 5 steps method. 3. The percentage that teachers majoring in home economics education as compared with others lay the similar stresses on the preparation processes, attitudes, and results of students is very high.

By the comparative analysis of middle school Home Economics curricula in the U.S, Sweden, japan, Taiwan, and Korea, this study attempts to understand the current Home Economics education and to access its trends for each country. Based on the findings of the analysis, this study also seeks to get the major implications of the analysis for the betterment of the Korean Home Economics Education. The main sources of information and data analyzed here are :1)curricula for 10 School Districts in Pennsylvania state as representives of the U.S ; 2)Home Economics curriculum for middle school in Sweden ; 3) Home Economics Teaching Guidelines in Japan ;4)Home Economics curriculum in Taiwan ; and 5) Home Economics curriculum in Korea. Content Analysis technique is applied in this study. The major elements of contents include :1)structure of the curriculum ;2)subject name ; 3)time allotment; 4)goals and objectives ; 5)subject areas and content composition ; 6) other related characteristics for the implemention of the curriculum Summarized results of the study outline as follows; 1)Home Economics is offered as independently required subject without sex discrimination in all five countries. 2)Time allotment for Home Economics in Sweden is double that in the other countries. 3)The common goals of Home Economics courses is practical learning experiences closely related to reality. 4) In terms of subjects areas, Food and Nutrition, Clothing & Textiles, Housing Human Development, and Child care are offered in three of four countries, which is also similar to those of Korea. In addition Consumer Education is also covered in the U.S., Sweden and Korea. 5)Curriculum can be utilized as instructional planning materials due to the clear specification of instructional method, materials, and evaluation method on the curriculum, especially in the U,S, and Taiwan.

The purpose of this study is to survey the learner’s need achievement, interest and practical level of the learning objectives according to the teacher’s teaching method in home economics of middle school(Dietary Life Unit), to examine the differences according to the local situation, and to get some information to improve the teaching method. This study surveyed the eight units of dietary life with 459 students in the rural community (224 students) and Seoul(235 Students). The collected data were analyzed by T-test, F-test. To sum up this study are as follows: 1. When the need, achievement, interest and practical level of unit “food”are compared the students of seoul with those of rural community, the student of Seoul show high in “The use of Processed Foodstuffs” and low in “Cooking the Processed Foodstuffs.”The student of rural community show in “A kind of Cooking Method”and low in “Environment and Food Life”. 2. The need, achievement, interest, practical level of the whole unit in rural community is higher than those is Seoul. 3. According to teaching method, comparison Seoul with rural community is revealed as follows. Seoul region is revealed significance to discovery learning in “Cooking Foodstuffs(The achievement and interest level) and ”Environment and Food Life”(interest level). Rural community is revealed significance to discussion learning in “The constituent and Food Life”(The need level, interest level). Rural community is revealed significance to explanation learning in “Environment and Food Life”(The achievement level).

The aim of this study is to apply lesson design of high school home economics to model which consists of six steps of instructional procedure among various models for instructional design, Through thesis, central content of each step was written as follows; 1) At the step of establishment of terminal instructional objectives, educational objectives, terminal instructional objectives was analyzed and specific instructional objectives was extracted. 3) At the step of diagnosis of entering behavior, ability of prior learning and ability of preliminary learning were evaluated, which was used as establishing instructional strategy and doing individual guidance. 4)At the step of determining instructional strategy, instructional strategy should be extracted by considering instructional event which is adequate to content of instruction. Instructional strategy consists of five main factor, factors, those are, activity of introduction of instruction, presentation of content of instruction and information, participation of learner and learning activity, identification of learning result, and subsequent treatment after evaluation. 5)Specific activity at the step of selection and development of instructional media consists of reidentification of instructional objectives determination of learning type, drawing up instructional media analysis sheet, synthesis of selected media, and explanatory note of selected media. In order to increase efficiency of instruction at the step of determining instructional strategy, this step should be considered simultaneously. 6)The step of try-out and evaluation of instructional design should be efficient when designed instruction was inputted at class after evaluation of each step of instructional design.