@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00015152,
 author = {佐々木, 享 and SASAKI, Susumu},
 journal = {名古屋大学教育学部紀要. 教育学科},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {In this paper I studied some problems inherent in the home economics courses of the vocational high schools in Japan. In 1986, 140,181 students were enrolled in the home economics courses. This figure is equivalent to 2.7% of the total number of high school students. In 1969, 177,044 students were enrolled in these courses, and this figure was 5.3% of the total number of high school students. Recently the number of pupils in these courses has decreased. This change suggests that these courses are less attractive to today's female students. According to the Course of Study for Upper Secondary School, which was officially announced in 1978 by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Culture, the over all objectives for the home economics courses are, "to make students acquire the fundamental and basic knowledge and techniques concerning clothing, food, housing, child rearing, and home management; to understand the significance of home life; and to develop necessary abilities and, practical attitudes in home life and related occupations." In the home economics courses there are 15 kinds of sub-courses, such as homemaking, clothing, food, child care, etc.. Among these sub-courses the most popular is the homemaking courses, in which about 101,000 students registerd in 1986. The clothing courses is the second most popular course; third is the food courses; and forth is the child care courses, judging their popularity by the number of students enrolled in 1986. However, it seems to me that the homemaking courses is not a vocational course, because almost all of the graduates of this course entered into occupations which have no relations to their studies at the school. One of the most important characteristics of home economics courses is that the greater part of students in these courses are female students. The proportion of male students in these courses is only 2.7% of the total number of high school students in 1987. Thus, home economics, especially the homemaking course is not only a general course for female students but also a preparatory course for their becoming housewives.},
 pages = {207--243},
 title = {高校の学科家庭科に関する覚書},
 volume = {34},
 year = {1988}
}