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What is Home Economics?

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Home Economics is one of the "option" subjects in the Irish school curriculum.

It aims to offer practical and theoretical training, within a widely based life skills curriculum, emphasising the importance of developing pupils as effective personal and family managers within a rapidly changing social environment.

Home Economics teachers and pupils participate in programmes in schools, which employ cooperative group work and planned investigative approaches in order to obtain information and/or develop products. These interpersonal applied skills aid the holistic educational and personal development of the pupil and prepare pupils for active participation in the modern world.

At Junior Certificate level it is studied by one third of all examination candidates. Home Economics addresses all aspects of family life and daily living such as food and nutrition, healthy living, clothing and shelter, child care, interpersonal relationships, and consumer behaviour. The unifying focus is responsible decision-making and purposeful managerial action.
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