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First Home Economics Textbook
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Birth of Ellen Richards
Ellen was born as an only child and grew up on a farm in Dunstable, Massachusetts. Her parents always emphasized a good education. -
Morrill Act of 1862
The U.S. government granted land to open universities that focus on the study of agriculture, industrial technologies, and domestic economics. -
Lake Placid Conference
Ellen Richards organized the first Lake Placid conference in Lake Placid, New York. This was a place where people who were also paving the way for home economics to come together and share ideas and spearhead new policies. 11 people gathered in New York for a conference on this date. At this conference, the name "home economics" was adopted for this new field. -
AHEA was founded
Ellen Richards founded the American Home Economics Association (AHEA) at the tenth Lake Placid Conference -
AHEA was chartered
The American Home Economics Association was chartered a short while after it emerged. -
Smith-Hughes Act
Started the Federal Board of Vocational education. This also includes home economics as a facet of vocational education as well as financial parameters for students and teachers in the field. -
Smith-Lever Act of 1914
This act outlined the parameters for agricultural extention. This includes developtment of practical applications, exhibition of existing and improved practice, and use of solar energy in relation to agriculture and homeconomics. -
Adoption of the Betty Lamp
The Home Economics Association adopted the Betty Lamp as their official symbol. This represents enlightenment for family and consumer sciences professionals through leadership and action. -
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Shift from Homemakers to Professionals
In the 1950s following the war, women were forced to join the workforce while the men were off to war. As husbands, brothers, and sons were returning from the war, women were unwilling to return to their norm and demanded to proper status after taking to the workplace. -
Vocational Education Act
This act split home economics employment into two different categories; useful employment (consumer) and gainful employment (occupational). Household became more consumer based than producer based. No specific funds were allocated for home economics. -
Head Start
This program provides heath and nutrition services as well as comprehensive early childhood education. This program was designed to help enhance underprivileged children's emotional and physical well being as well as facilitate stable family environments. -
Vocational Amendment 1
Funds were set aside for consumer homemaking and set aside a third of those funds specifically for economically depressed areas. Emphasized the importance of both roles of homemaker and consumer. -
AHEA Annual Meeting
Feminist leader Robin Morgan addressed the AHEA at the annual meeting claiming that the association was influencing women to be more consumeristic than career driven. This marks the shift to a more career centered role in home economics -
Vocational Amendment 2
Categorized funding and developed national priorities for spending. Involved state administrations and attempted to breakdown stereotypes that were involved with vocational education. -
Rise of Consumerism
With new advancement and technologies, baby boomers, who were coming into adulthood, would spend large sums of money on expensive clothes, new technology (Atari and computers), and lavish homes. -
Carl Perkins Act
This act was created to provide federal funds for vocational programs for youth and adults. This act aids in providing funds for postsecondary education programs that prepare students for a job in a vocational field. -
Change in Name
In the 90s, the term "home economics" was old and tired; associated with "stitching and stirring". In order to breathe new life into the discipline, the American Home Economics Association became the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. -
Start of Profession
This marks the start of my higher education journey and the start of my profession.