The primary aim of teaching home economics in schools is to help to prepare boys and girls for some important aspects of everyday living and the adult responsibilities of family life.
1. Development of attitudes and values and of the capacity to make judgments based on a reasonable consideration of evidence about matters to do with running a home, diet and clothing.
2. Home-making is equally important for boys and girls, and that in adult life the responsibilities of family life should be shared so that both men and women have sufficient opportunity to continue their own personal development.
3. Provide a useful background for pupils who may proceed eventually to careers involving the care of children, the elderly or the handicapped; or catering in its various forms.
4. Pupils should be encouraged to judge and improve their own performance as well as receiving the necessary stimulus, guidance and help from the teacher.
5. Teaching methods should encourage the development of pupils' critical and analytical skills and the ability to transfer knowledge and understanding intelligently from one situation to others.
6. It is important to ensure progression in the work at every stage. The learning of practical skills and the development of manual dexterity, for instance, should not be ends in themselves but part of a sequential program of work.
7. The amount of work which can be covered will be governed by the time available. However short the time, work should be planned with a view to helping pupils to develop the ability to manage and organize time and resources.
8. Where pupils have differing abilities and are at varied stages of development there must be differentiation of the level of demand and expectation.
9. All teaching should take account of the variety of family and cultural backgrounds
