Group guidance implications obtained from a leadership training camp for junior and senior high school homemaking students

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1950

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The results of the eight point program of the Future Homemakers of America have been under observation since the founding of the organization, June 11, 1945. Although the observations have been gratifying, it was vitally important that an evaluation of the results of this type of group guidance at the junior and senior high school level be made. This thesis was concerned with the results of this eight point program correlated with the field of group guidance. The study (1) compared Future Homemakers club work based on the eight purposes of the organization with the field of group guidance; (2) presented student-leader attitudes In regard to planned club work, summer camp, home experiences, and community activities; (3) presented examples of student-planned activities; and (^) showed the student’s reactions to home, camp, and community environments. There was a great wealth of material available for study of the adolescent and for study in group guidance, but the select few that were used In the planning and study of the experiment were given. There were four main objectives for this studys (1) to determine that extra-curricular activities can be brought into the realm of high school curriculum and can be made an integral part of the modem educational program, provided the planning and activity are largely the responsibility of the student, with the help and guidance of a qualified, well- trained, and sympathetic leader; (2) to determine that the further enrichment of the extra-curricular activity program in junior and senior high schools may be a valuable and vital part of the modern educational program; (3) to show that group guidance at the high school level may be correlated with religious and civic education; and (U) to show that group guidance is a vital link in the formation of the adolescent’s philosophy of life. The data obtained and discussed in this study make a beginning of a much-needed kind of research in evaluation of homemaking education curriculum correlated with group guidance through so called extra-curricular activities. Finally, it was noted that the Future Homemakers1 Organizations in Texas are influencing the youth through planned group guidance toward a happy and normal life in a democratic country.

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