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  Learn more about Family and consumer science in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Family and consumer sciences, or home economics, involves the study of nutrition, cooking, parenting, interior decoration, textiles, gardening, and other useful aspects of home management.
Most of the best, most highly skilled homemakers never studied "family and consumer science" or even knew it by that name.
Family and Consumer Sciences may be represented under the Social Sciences category for its emphasis on the well-being of families, individuals, and communties, or under the hard sciences for its emphasis on Nutrition and Textile Science.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /f/fa/family_and_consumer_science_1.html   (408 words)

  
 Family and consumer science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Family and consumer sciences, or home economics, is an academic discipline which combines aspects of consumer science, nutrition, cooking, parenting and human development, interior decoration, textiles, family economics and resource management as well as other related subjects.
Family and consumer sciences combines social science, including its emphasis on the well-being of families, individuals, and communities, and natural science with its emphasis on nutrition and textile science.
The field as it is today originated from home economics; in the U.S. the discipline developed at Kansas State University in 1882 and spread quickly to other land grant universities after women appealed to have their own niche while the men studied subjects such as agriculture or shop.
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 Family and consumer science in TutorGig Encyclopedia
Students of either gender were strongly discouraged or outright banned from taking each other's subjects.
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 Family and consumer science - Internet-Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
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