HEED 101: HOME ECONOMICS PHILOSOPHERS

we are the only one studying about families and their concerns.

This is the unique feature of our discipline

the family

In the past when the pioneer Home Economists try to conceptualize the discipline, their main focus already ___.

members of the family, especially women, started working outside their home

During the Industrial revolution (late 18^th century), there are changes already happening inside the home, because it was the time when ___.

will be prepared while they go to school.

Pioneers thought before that it should be a study/academic discipline that will look into the changes in the family so that young children ___.

ELLEN HENRIETTA SWALLOW RICHARDS

First woman who got a degree in MIT

learning science

When Ellen Richards was young, she already have this love of ___

chemistry

Ellen Richards did everything in college to pursue ___

discrimination

Ellen Richards got the opportunity to teach there and have graduate studies, but ___ still apparent.

what she knows about science

Ellen Richards saw the need to make use of ___ (there should be practicality) to improve living conditions.

Different activities that families do inside the household will affect their social environment, and the immediate physical environment, and vice versa.

Philosophy of Ellen

ELLEN HENRIETTA SWALLOW RICHARDS

She wants to improve the living conditions outside the home to also improve the living conditions inside the home

social and ecological

Household activities impact ___ and ___ environments, and vice versa.

pollution, sanitation, and food production

Ellen Richards’s focus then was on ___, ___, and ___

Euthenics

Ellen Richards focused on ___ - the science of controllable environment

live a satisfying life
improve living conditions

Ellen believed that if the family knows how to control their environment, they will ___, and also able to improve living conditions (especially women since there are mostly home managers).

Controlling the environment

Ellen believed that ___ should be scientific in nature.

ELLEN HENRIETTA SWALLOW RICHARDS

the science of conditions of health and well-being of everyday human life.

She also proposed Oekology - ______________

ELLEN HENRIETTA SWALLOW RICHARDS

the study of the surroundings of human beings and the effects they produce on the lives of men.

She then proposed Human Ecology - __________________

nature of science

domestic science

Even though Ellen Richards proposed human ecology, she still wanted to inject the ___ into this new discipline she was discovering, that is why she retained the term ___.

She wanted to term it “Economics” but to prevent confusion, eventually they included the term “Home” in Economics

Why Domestic Science changed to Home Economics ?

the improvement of the environment

Scientific knowledge has a huge influence to the well-being of humanity through ___.

MELVILLE LOUIS KOSSUTH “Melvil” DEWEY

This pioneer involved in classification systems of libraries

MELVILLE LOUIS KOSSUTH “Melvil” DEWEY

“Those who can make the home all it should be will contribute more to the basic needs of life than teachers, ministers and editors.”

MELVILLE LOUIS KOSSUTH “Melvil” DEWEY

As long as you know how to manage your own home, then you know how to really live a good life.

MELVILLE LOUIS KOSSUTH “Melvil” DEWEY

He helped contribute to the discipline because he was one of the members of groups of people to conceptualize the discipline.

“One of our fundamental problems was to find out how rational food production could be made to yield better returns in economy, and social progress and welfare.”

He really emphasize the importance of nutrition and food production.

He created a lot of researches about food and nutrition.

Main contribution of Dr. Wilbur Olin Atwater

MARION TALBOT

This pioneer involved in a social aspect of Home Economics

MARION TALBOT

“Home Economics must always be regarded in the light of its relation to the general social system. Men and women alike are concerned in understanding the processes, activities, obligations and opportunities which make the home and family effective parts of the social fabric.”

MARION TALBOT

Emphasize the relation of the individual families to other families in their community and to the larger society.

CATHERINE ESTHER BEECHER

Founder of American Woman’s Educational Association

CATHERINE ESTHER BEECHER

“Women are uniquely suited to the moral and intellectual development of children, either as mothers or as educators.”

women and its role to society

Catherine Beecher’s focus

CATHERINE ESTHER BEECHER

Written lots of book in relation to the different conditions of women

ISABEL BEVIER

“Home Economics has an opportunity to teach something of the beauty of life and the unity of life, to teach that there is an art in a well-ordered home and a well-ordered life, and that perhaps that is the greatest thing home economics has to do.”

sound scholarship or the importance of teaching HE

For Isabel Bevier, ___ is given importance.

administration process of education

Isabel focused more on the ____

ISABEL BEVIER

Her philosophy supplements other philosophies

Meal planning charts and bulletins on food values

Caroline Hunt’s focus

CAROLINE HUNT

Worked under the Office and Bureau of Home Economics in the US Department of Agriculture

LITA BANE

Leadership in the extension field of HE for rural women and adult education movement.

HELEN ATWATER

Editor of the Journal of Home Economics

MARJORIE BROWN

CONTEMPORARY HOME ECONOMIST

MARJORIE BROWN

She witnessed the development of HE at its early stage

MARJORIE BROWN

She was a good critique within the profession of Home Economics

feedback and criticisms

With Marjorie Brown’s ___ and ___, the discipline was able to improve its image, how they want to brand themselves in the public

perennial in nature

Marjorie Brown: Every one of us has its own problem. Everyone (families, individuals) has faced with different challenges in life. These challenges are ___.

Home Economics

Marjorie Brown: These perennial problems can be solved through the lens of ___.

larger environment

public

Marjorie Brown: The solution to these problems can lie on the ___, that is why it’s important to emphasize the importance of HE to the ___ because through them, more support can be provided.

“The purpose of HE is to aid people in solving practical problems of a perennial nature and that the solutions to these concerns lie in the conditions of the larger environment.”

Philosophy of Marjorie Brown

practical, perennial problems

Home Economics help solve the ___ of families.

the desired and the reality of life situations

HE aims to improve the day to day living of families by helping them see the gap between ___.

desired and actual

As Home Economists, we will help individuals see the difference between these two realities (___)

formulation of human problems

Home Economics deals with the ___ of the home & family

Familial communication
Work/employment
Political & social engagement

Desirable state of human affairs

Familial communication

Desirable state of human affairs: how we interact and communicate with the members of the family

Work/employment

Desirable state of human affairs: in relation to  productivity, in relation to the resources.

Political & social engagement

Desirable state of human affairs: engagement to society

Technical Action

System of Action: how to cope and get by

Interpretative Action

System of Action: how to adapt with insights. Need to communicate with someone. Other members might also have different opinion regarding the decision. Can be extended to friends or local community.

Critical Action

System of Action: how to change society with enlightenment. When selecting decision that you want to do, it’s important to think about its impact to the environment.