Home Economics Now: Transformative Practice, Ecology, and Everyday Life - Softcover

Edited By Mary Gale Smith; Linda Peterat; And Mary Leah De Zwart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1895766745 ISBN 13: 9781895766745

Publisher: Pacific Educational Press, 2004

Synopsis

Home Economics Now celebrates the tradition of scholarship and research created by Dr. Eleanore Vaines during her thirty-year association with the School of Family and Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia. Each of the nine chapters demonstrates the deep influence that Vaines scholarship, theorizing, and research has had on the next generation of scholars in home economics, human ecology, family studies, and education. The contributors highlight the recurring themes of Eleanore Vaines work: transforming practice through reflection guided by a moral vision, reimagining the world as our home, attending to the common good and the ecological values for living in harmony with our world, and uncovering the wholeness and sacredness of everyday life. This is a timely resource for students of home economics and home economics education at the university level, and for practising teachers and home economists, as well as scholars in the field.

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About the Author

Mary Gale Smith is a high-school home economics teacher currently seconded to the teacher education program at the University of British Columbia where she teaches courses for pre-service teachers and graduate students. She holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies and is co-editor, with Linda Peterat, of Informing Practice through Action Research. Linda Peterat is a professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at the University of British Columbia where she teaches curriculum theory and research methodologies and coordinates the home economics teacher education programs. She is also the author of Making Textile Studies Matter (Pacific Educational Press). Mary Leah de Zwart holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies and has taught at Okanagan University College in Kelowna, B.C., and is currently teaching at Queen Elizabeth Secondary School in Surrey, B.C.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pacific Educational Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1895766745
• ISBN 13: 9781895766745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176