The following plan has been approved as thoroughly practicable by
leading officers and members of the American Home Economics
Association, including several heads of departments of home economics
in the state colleges, by other educators interested in the field of
home economics, as well as by representatives of the States Relations
Service, the Bureau of Home Economics Department in the United States
Department of Agriculture, the Federal Board of Vocational Education,
and the Home Economics Division of the United States Bureau of
Education. The unanimous judgment of those consulted is that if such a
plan could be carried out for the space of three years, the Federal
service would be vivified and enriched and the educational
institutions enabled to develop training methods from which a
continuous supply of teachers and teaching material could be expected.
OUTLINE OF PLAN
I. Creation of committee composed of officers of American
Home Economics Association, representatives from the United
States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics,
the States Relations Service, the Home Economics Division of
the United States Bureau of Education, the heads of
departments of home economics in the state colleges, the
technical schools and teacher-training schools, Federal Board
for Vocational Education.
II. Increasing supply of teachers and teaching material.
1. Provision for assembling material in food, household
management, including expenditures, and child care,
particularly, and adapting this material to the needs of the
members of the different foreign-born groups, by supplying
salaries for two persons experienced in teaching, who would
devote themselves to the preparation of classroom material,
leaflets, charts, etc.--$2,400
$4,800
2. The granting of stipends to graduate students who would
work at institutions approved by the committee and who would
do practice teaching with such groups. In the assignment
both of the stipends and of the institutional patronage, the
interests of both urban and rural women would be taken into
account by supplying scholarships for ten graduate students
to teach under supervision and to assemble material under
direction, these to be awarded by the committee with due
regard to needs of rural and urban women--$750
$7,500
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