Show 5 A f a yr M r Y 11 d HOME ARTS student Robyn Rabyn works on creative project 10 air tf for lor n fr t tu t e es ie s I u ASHLEY SHLEY ELEMENTARY students play number games with Susan McBride child development teacher student-teacher old aid Home ome EC program program- now includes boys The place A home economics class In an urban high school The students student Lower middle le and upper class Anglo Saxon and Indian The teacher A Ahome Ahome Ahome home economist The program Home economics Tim THE STUDENTS are seated In a semi circle facing the blackboard where the teacher Is standing The atmosphere Inthe in inthe inthe the classroom is calm With the class in its second week weck the students know that its it's not the standard home economics i course as the classroom doesn't house a single range or sewing The question is on the students' students faces Does Docs she really care what happens to us The Question was prompted by the discussion the class had about goals in life liCe and the meaning of honesty responsibility and trust TIIE FItEE take give-and-take discussions were a refreshing experience for the students The teacher leacher at one point posed the 4 question If you had a choice I if there was one thing that you wanted out of life what wha t would it be She asked them to write an answer but not sign the paper and hand it in in One girl giggled self self- consciously You mean what we really I want another girl asked Some of the students writing on the paper in front of them bent over and cupped their hands over the paper so their neighbors couldn't see what they were writing When the teacher trocher had the I papers on her desk she went to toI the blackboard and began I putting pulling down the replies given by the students The class I wa watched each word expectantly New car It to be berich rich A house to live in Happiness It bag of money If New clothes Happy marriage BY THE TIIE time the last word was on the blackboard the mood of the class was boisterous Then the teacher raised another question and everyone was asked to think the answer over carefully this time She asked When you wrote down what you wanted were you really being honest with yourself Was that really it For the rest of the 50 minute period and for two days afterward the students mulled the question over and talked it out in class and everyone had a say The course was on track exactly as planned It was moving toward its goal of helping young men and women take Lake their places in the adult world as homemakers and wage earners The events described In this classroom could have taken place at any anyone one of the nine secondary schools in the Uintah Basin nasin TO EMPHASIZE these and other innovations in home economics Governor Calvin Hampton has proclaimed March 30 24 as Home Economics Week in Utah The week will be sponsored by the Utah Home Economics Association and will be observed in classrooms throughout the basin Home economics was originally conceived as a program for girls in home crafts principally sewing and cooking While today the bulk of enrollees are still girls the philosophic emphasis today is education for family life liCe rather than just specific skills While cooking and sewing by whatever names still are the principal focus of oC instruction this philosophic shift is reflected in a greater breadth of offerings by home economics departments that relate to all phases of family life liCe As one enthusiast t has written Of course homemaking is a vocation the most important voca vocation tion in inthe inthe inthe the world For home is where human beings are made and there cannot possibly be a more important vocation than the making of a human being t jt j f I It T J J i II t s 11 k r 1 8 1 II Q r 1 v ROBERT HAIGHT Ronnie Jackson and Robert Ivle learn leorn to set the table properly In Bachelor Arts |