The purpose of this study was to provide fundamental information for the determination of secondary Home Economic education contents on food/nutrition. For this purpose, the Home Economics teachers' needs assessment was performed in view of three(tech...
The purpose of this study was to provide fundamental information for the determination of secondary Home Economic education contents on food/nutrition. For this purpose, the Home Economics teachers' needs assessment was performed in view of three(technical, interpretive, emancipatory) systems of action.
Questionnaire survey was performed. Among 564 questionnaires sent of Home Economics teachers of 396 secondary school selected by systemic random sampling 362 questionnaires were received and 335 questionnaires were analyzed for this study. As a statistical tool, SPSS/PC?? was used to analyze frequency, mean, standard deviation, T-test and ANOVA.
The major findings in this study were as followings :
1. The most important system of action Home Economics teachers recognized on the contents of food/nutrition was interpretive action, followed by emancipatory action. Tehnical action was turned out to be the least important system of action.
2. Home Economics teachers recognized that the content of interpretive action was the most achieved action in the text book. The least achieved action was emancipatory action, and the middle was technical action.
3. The needs related to contents of emancipatory action was the highest, followed by interpretive action. The lowest needs was the contents related to technical action.
4. Home Economics teacher's personal background and situation variables make no difference in the importance, achievement in the text, and the needs of food/nutrition contents.