Knowra Home economics Home economics Home economics is an academic field that studies household management, including nutrition, textiles, family relationships, consumer choices, and personal finance.
Household management : The planning and coordination of resources and tasks within a household. This is the broad activity home economics investigates and teaches.
Catherine Beecher : An American educator and reformer who promoted domestic education and women's schooling in the nineteenth century. Her writing helped establish household management as a subject worthy of systematic teaching.
School meal : A meal served to students through a school-based food program. Nutrition research informs menus, food preparation, and education in school settings.
Family and consumer sciences : The name commonly used in the United States for the modern academic field descended from home economics. The newer name signals an expanded scope and distances the field from older stereotypes.
Home economics movement : A reform movement that sought to improve household life through education, research, and professional organization. The movement carried the field into schools, universities, and public reform.
Nutrition : The study of how food and nutrients affect health, growth, and bodily function. Food choices and meal planning connect household practice to health.
Ellen Swallow Richards : An American chemist and educator who applied scientific methods to sanitation, nutrition, and domestic life. She helped shape the field's emphasis on applying science to household conditions.
Food safety : The handling and preparation practices that prevent foodborne illness and contamination. Household food storage and preparation are practical applications of the field.
Domestic science : A nineteenth- and early twentieth-century movement that applied scientific methods to household work. It is an earlier label for work that later became organized as home economics.
Domestic labor : Unpaid or paid work that maintains households and supports the people who live in them. The field made household work an object of study, while debates persist over its valuation.
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