Home Economics in Higher Education: Communities of Convenience or Purpose?

Abstract

This article focuses on home economics higher education curricula and argues that an integrative, interdisciplinary curriculum organized around a set of practi cal, perennial problems would strengthen the effectiveness of the field. It begins with a contextual discussion of interdisciplinarity as a phenomenon in higher education. It then provides a rationale for developing integrative, interdisciplinary curricula for home economics in colleges and universities and offers an explana tion of the practical, perennial‐problem framework for curriculum. It also exam ines the consequences to home economics of a lack of integration and offers ideas for facilitating integration using the communicative mode of inquiry.

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