Home economics emerged in the late 19th century led by pioneers like Catherine Beecher and Ellen Richards who sought to apply scientific principles to domestic life. Richards convened the Lake Placid Conferences in 1889 which helped establish home economics. She wanted to focus on using science to improve domestic situations and advocated for terms like "oecology" or "euthenics" before settling on "home economics". The field grew with American teachers bringing home economics curriculum to the Philippines in the early 1900s. By the 1920s, home economics was a required subject for girls in the Philippines, focusing on subjects like cooking, sewing, housekeeping, and childcare.

1. HISTORY OF
HOME
ECONOMICS

2. •HOME ECONOMICS STANDS FOR
THE IDEAL HOME LIFE FOR TODAY
UNHAMPERED BY THE TRADITIONS
OF THE PAST AND THE UTILIZATION
OF ALL THE RESOURCES OF MODERN
SCIENCE TO IMPROVE HOME LIFE.

3. ONE OF THE FIRST TO CHAMPION THE
ECONOMICS OF RUNNING A HOME.
ARGUE FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF DOMISTIC
LIFEAND SOUGHT TO APPLY SCIENTIFIC
PRINCIPLES TO CHILDBEARING, COOKING
AND HOUSEKEEPING.
TREATIES ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY FOR THE
USE OF YOUNG LADIES AT HOME.
1800-1878
CATHERINE
BEECHER

4. WAS AN AMERICAN ABOLITIONIST
AND AUTHOR. SHE CAME FROM
THE BEECHER FAMILY’ A FAMOUS
RELIGIOUS FAMILY, AND IS THE
BEST KNOWN FOR HER NOVEL
UNCLES TOM’S CABIN
Harriet Beecher
Stowe
1811-1896

5. CATHERINE AND HARRIET BOTH WERE LEADERS IN MID-
19TH CENTURY NORTH AMERICA IN TALKINGABOUT
DOMESTIC SCIENCE. THEY CAME FROMA VERY RELIGIOUs
FAMILY THAT VALUED EDUCATION ESPECIALLY FOR
WOMEN.

6. LAKE PLACID
CONFERENCES
WHICH GAVE BIRTH TO THE HOME ECONOMICS
MOVEMENT IN 1889.

7. ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS
1842-1911
 WHOWAS THE FIRST WOMAN TOATTEND
MASSACHUSETTSINSTITUTEOF TECHNOLOGYAND
LATER BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE INSTRUCTOR.
 SHESTARTEDHOME ECONOMICS MOVEMENT.
 SHEFOCUSON APPLYNGSCIENTIFICPRINCIPLESTO
DOMESTICSITUATION.

8. THE MOST PROMINENT FEMALE
AMERICAN ALCHEMIST OF THE 19TH
CENTURY.
SHE WAS A PIONEER IN SANITARY
ENGINEERING AND A FOUNDER OF
HOME ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED
STATES.
SHE WAS THE FIRST TO SUGGEST

9. IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY, RICHARD
CONVEYEDA GROUP OF CONTEMPORARIES
TO DISCUSSTHE ESSENCE OF DOMESTIC
SCIENCE AND HOWTHE ELEMENTSOF THIS
DICIPLINES WOULDULTIMATELY IMPROVE
THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR MANY
INDIVIDUAL ANDFAMILIES.

10. RICHARD WANTED TO CALL THIS….
OEKOLOGY- OR THE SCIENCE OF RIGHT LIVING
EUTHENICS- THE SCIENCE OF UNCONTROLLABLE
ENVIRONMENT.
HOME ECONOMICS- WAS ULTIMATELY CHOOSEN AS
THE MAIN TERM 1899.

11. HOME
ECONOMIC
S IN THE
PHILIPPINE
S

12. AMERICAN METHODS OF INTRUCTION
WERE ENSURED BY BRINGING IN THE
HUNDREDS OF AMERICAN TEACHERS
CALLED THOMASITES 1901.
VOCATIONAL TRAINING IN
HOUSEKEEPING AND HOUSEHOLD ARTS
WAS MADE AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT OF
GIRLS’ EDUCATION IN THE PHILLIPINES.

13. ELVESSA ANN
STEWART
A GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF
NEBRASKA, SHE WENT TO THE PHILIPPINES
AS A TEACHER IN 1913.
SUPERINTENDENT OF HOME ECONOMICS IN
THE BUREAU OF EDUCATION IN MANILA
1929.

14. FOR 20 YEARS, DOMESTIC
TRAINING HAD FLOURISHED IN
THE FILIPINO SCHOOLS
STARTING WITH ‘‘SEWING,
COOKING AND
HOUSEKEEPING.’’

15. GIRLS IN GRADE 5 – 7 WERE REQUIRED TO
DEVOTE 80 MINUTES A DAY TO HOME
ECONOMICS ACTIVITIES WHICH INCLUDED:
COOKING
SEWING
HOUSEKEEPING
SANITATION
HOME NURSING
INFANT CARE
FOOD SELECTION
EMBROIDERY
LACEMAKING 1920

16. DURING 1941
 EVERY SECONDARY GIRL WAS REQUIRED TO HAVE
ATLEAST ONE YEAR OF HOME ECONOMICS BEFORE
GRADUATION.
 REQUIRED SUBJECTS INCLUDED NUTRITION AND A
CHILD CARE.

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