10. Is it possible to imitate home conditions in the teaching of cooking? Ascertain the various plans which have been used in the endeavor to produce a home environment and home conditions. What are the merits and faults of each of these plans? BIBLIOGRAPHY ANDREWS, B. R. Education for the Home, Part I. U. S. Bureau of Education, Bulletin, 1914, No. 36, Washington, D. C. CALVIN, H. W. Equipment and Rooms for Home Economics. U. S. Bureau of Education, Home Economics Circular, No. 11, Washington, D. C., January, 1922. DONOVAN, J. J. ET AL. School Architecture-Principles and Practices. Macmillan, 1921. HARRIS, J. W. AND PECK, L. Equipment for Teaching Homemaking in Texas High Schools. State Board for Vocational Education, Bulletin 140, Austin, Tex., January, 1922. KINNE, H. Equipment for Teaching Domestic Science. Whitcomb and Barrows, 1911. (3rd edition) O'LEARY, I. P. Cooking in the Vocational School as Training for Homemaking. PROBLEM 82 THE SEWING ROOM AND LAUNDRY OF A NEW HIGH SCHOOL Problem: Miss Scott, household arts supervisor, has submitted to the superintendent suggestions for sewing room and laundry in the new senior high school in Hopeville, N. K. The suggestions are embodied in Diagram 1. The school must provide for 750 boys and girls about equally divided. Assignment 1. Assuming the need for the facilities planned, what changes would you, as superintendent of schools, recommend: (a) In the relationship of the rooms to one another? (b) In the character of the equipment? (c) With respect to the duplication of equipment? (e) In the amount of space devoted to these facilities? 2. Discuss the program of instruction possible in these rooms as planned. 3. Assuming that the utmost of economy is essential, what effect would this have upon your recommendations? BIBLIOGRAPHY CALVIN, H. W. Equipment and Rooms for Home Economics. U. S. Bureau of Education, Home Economic Circular, No. 11, Washington, D. C., January, 1922. HARRIS, J. W. AND PECK, L. Equipment for Teaching Homemaking in Texas High Schools. State Board for Vocational Education, Bulletin 140, Austin, Tex., January, 1922. KINNE, HELEN. Equipment for Teaching Domestic Science. Whitcomb and Barrows, Boston, 1911. (3rd edition) RICHARDSON, A. E. Plant and Equipment for Vocational Classes in Home Economics. Federal Board for Vocational Education, Miscellaneous Publications, No. 325 (mimeographed), October 10, 1921, Washington, D. C. PROBLEM 83 HOUSEHOLD ARTS IN A SMALL JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL Problem: The teachers of sewing and cooking in the Marshal Junior High School have planned the layout of their room for the new building. This plan has been presented to the superintendent of schools for his decisions on equipment, spacing, and service outlets. The junior high school has an enrollment of 425 pupils, approximately 60 per cent of whom are girls. The work in cooking and sewing is required of all girls, sewing in the seventh grade and cooking in the eighth. Assignment 1. In what respects would you, as superintendent of schools, vary from the recommendations made by the teachers? 2. What are the amounts of floor space required per student in this type of sewing room? Cooking room? What variables enter to change these figures? 3. Redraw this plan, incorporating the features which you propose to recommend to the Board of Education. 4. Discuss the value of gas stoves vs. electric stoves for this school. Of a coal range as contrasted with either of the above. 5. What are the other equipment plans which have been followed in equipping cooking rooms? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each plan? 6. Ascertain from advertising literature on equipment for these two rooms the desirable features in the required equipment which ought to receive your attention. 7. Using Forms 1, 2, and 3, prepare from commercial catalogues the report of equipping these two rooms which you will submit to the Board. Include estimates of the total costs. |