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UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES

Tamag, Vigan City
2700 Ilocos Sur

COLLEGE OF TEACHER EDUCATION

Agamata, Plinky Anne A.

BTVTED FSM-2

Teaching Common Competencies in Home Economics

Activity # 1

Instructions: Prepare a timeline for the history of home economics by presenting the
different events that happened in a chronological order (chronological timeline). Consider the
following elements:

Catherine Beecher
 One of the first to champion the Economics of running a home. ➝ Argue for the importance of
domestic life and sought to apply scientific principles to childbearing, cooking and housekeeping. ➝
Treaties on Domestic Economy for the Use of Young Ladies at Home. 
Harriet Beecher Stowe
 She was an American abolitionist and author. She came from the Beecher family, a famous religious
family, and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin 6. Catherine and Harriet both were leaders
in mid-19th century North America in talking about domestic science. They came from a very religious
family that valued education especially for women.

The Morrill Act of 1862

➝Propelled domestic science further ahead as land grant colleges sought to educate farm wives in running
their households as their husbands were being educated in agricultural methods and processes.
“ ➝In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the land-grant schools, along with a few private institutions ,
established courses of instruction in what was generally called “domestic Science”
 ➝Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were early leaders offering programs for women
which gave birth to the home economics movement in 1889 Lake Placid Conferences.
Ellen Swallow Richards 1842-1911
Who was the first woman to attend Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later became the first female
instructor. She started Home Economics Movement. She focus on applying scientific principles to domestic

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situations. ➝Late in the 19th century, Richards convened a group of contemporaries to discuss the essence of
domestic science and how the elements of this discipline would ultimately improve the quality of life for many
individuals and families. A home economics class in 1911 in Toronto Oekology or the science of right living.
Euthenics, the science of controllable environment “Home economics" was ultimately chosen as the official
term in 1899. Richards wanted to call this a glimpse into a midcentury home economics class.
Beginning in 1899
➝Richard, along with Melvin Dewey and other educators and activists, organized a series of annual gatherings
that became known as the Lake Placid Conferences. ➝these educators worked tirelessly to elevate the
discipline, which was to become home economics, to a legitimate profession. 
In 1908
Conference participants formed the American Home Economics Association (AHEA). This organization
effectively lobbied federal and state governments to provide funding for home economics research and
teaching, including adult education work through agricultural extension services, leading to the rapid expansion
of educational programs.
1993
American Home Economics Association was changed to American Association of Family and Consumer
Sciences during Scottsdale Conference in Scottsdale Arizona
American methods of instruction were ensured by bringing in hundreds of American teachers
called Thomasites in 1901 Vocational training in housekeeping and household arts was made an
important element of girls’ education in the Philippines.
Elvessa Ann Stewart
A graduate of the University of Nebraska, she went to the Philippines as a teacher in 1913.
Superintendent of Home Economics in the Bureau of Education in Manila in 1929. For 20
years, Domestic training had flourished in Filipino Schools starting with “Sewing, cooking and
housekeeping.”
1920
➝Girls in grade 5 to 7 were required to devote 80 minutes a day to home economics activities
which included:  Cooking  Sewing  Housekeeping  Sanitation  Home Nursing  Infant
Care  Food Selection  Embroidery  Lacemaking
During 1941

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Every secondary girl was required to have at least one year of home economics before
graduation. Required subjects included nutrition and child care. Teachers of Intermediate Home
Economics were required to be graduates of the Philippine Normal School or the
equivalent,which required 3 years of study beyond secondary level.
Today and tomorrow
  Professionals continue to practice in many venues including secondary teaching, college and university
teaching and research and outreach through cooperative extension programs.
 K to 12 Program

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