Lecture 9 Flashcards
Briefly describe the ups and downs of the HEc education?
Late 1800 HEc was taken very seriously (very broad)
Feminist movement in the 60/70s wanted women to have greater opportunities to participate in the outside world (without questioning its values and its processes)
-very narrow
This has lead to the “Dumping of HEc” and a need to re-widen the scope
What does the removal of HEc form the class room coincided with?
Cost cutting measures (recession) in schools and the rise in consumerism)
What came before designer clothes?
Homemade clothes
-not knowing how to sew lead to increased dependence on designer labels as definition of quality
What is homemaking not as valued as?
Wade earning
What doe san untidy house suggest?
That parents are busy earning money in the public sphere
What is filling the gap left by the removal of HEc classes from curriculum?
The market (Martha Stewart)
What have we shifted from and too?
Producers to consumers
What is more important, work life or home life?
We put in extra hours at the office because we value that kind of work
Home life and child rearing area secondary
What are the recommendations for HEc education?
Parents need to demand HEc curriculum
Make HEc a priority at university level
-having properly trained teachers
What are the F&N challenges?
- FN education is undervalued by teachers, school admin and parents
- Number & duration of classes has decreased
- “Dumping ground” for challenging students
- Perception that “anybody” can teach cooking
- Seen as a less important subject than math/science
What does “Dumping Ground” mean?
Students with behaviour challenges or developmental problems they put them in family studies.
Teachers of these subjects questions the intellectual portion to the class
If you have more than one kid with behaviour issues it makes it hard for other teachers
What happened to pays ed classes?
Added nutrition education but the problem is that it is taught by kin people
If HEc a popular teaching field?
Thre are fewer teachers entering the field
- very hard to get qualified people
- especially hard to recruit up north
Why isn’t hEc chosen as often as a profession?
Poor career counselling at university
How does the wider environment undermine F&N education?
Home:
- increase in convenience foods
- decrease in time spent preparing food, fewer family meals, mentoring of children in food skills
School:
- Unhealthy foods served at events
- ‘junk’ food rewards
Why is there a decrease in student knowledge, skills and attitudes towards HEc education?
- Many students have little/no knowledge of food
- food preparation
- Basic equipment usage
- Food safety
- Difficult to teach higher level skills/recipes
Why is F&N education critically important?
Seeing increased rates of chronic diseases that are diet related
What can F&N classes also teach us in terms of skills?
Food planning, prep, hygiene Financial management Teamwork Food and nutrition science Food system issues
What are some recommendations to address HEc education?
Develop FN curriculum based on comprehensive food literacy framework
- Functional food literacy
- Interactive food literacy
- Critical food literacy
Implement mandatory FN education
Why are university students looked at in terms of their food skill level?
- Significant life transition?
- Poor diet & decreased PA can lead to weight gain and CHD
- Behaviours track into adulthood
- Many barriers to healthful eating (time, money, stress, lack of FN education)
Why are food skills important?
Food prep can lead to better diet quality
Inadequate food skills and low involvement in food prep among Canadian youth
Lack of cooking skills is inversely related to the purchase, prep and consumption of F&V
91% of University students eat <1/2 F&V recommendations
University students intend to eat better but lack what?
Lack Coping self efficacy and knowledge of dietary recommendations
What was the original university student survey based on?
Based on evidence and practice based indicators, expert opinions and literature
Pilot tested minor working revisions
30,310 Western students invited by email to take survey
What were the 7 food skills involved in the university student study?
- Peeling, chopping, slicing F&V
- Cooking a few dishes to serve at same time
- Making a meal with available ingredients
- Cooking large batch to freeze for later
- Adjusting recipe to make it healthier
- Choosing spice/herb that goes well with food
- Meal planning for weeks meal
What are the 4 predictor variables?
- Having taken a F&N course
- Sex and age
- Food behaviours related to parental home
- Student behaviours in university
- grocery shopping frequency
- weekend meal prep
- lunch packing
- buying meals
What was the response rate for the survey?
1st email 4,000 responses
3rd email 7,000 responses
Response Rate: 24%
What students were excluded from the survey?
Excluded students living in res or with parents/family
-3,354 students living independently
What were the results of the study model?
F&N courses stayed constant throughout the addition of other variables
But with only F&N course it only explains 1.2% of food skills
When all factors are added it accounts for 23.8% variance in food skills
-the more things that are accounted for, the higher % it accounts for
What was the highest predictor of food skills in university students?
Teen meal prep
What was interesting in terms of FN courses throughout the different models?
It decreased but continued to stay significant
What were the conclusions of the study?
- F&N education matters
- Strongest predictor: Teen meal preparation
- All variables are modifiable such as develop food skills, pack a lunch and use a grocery list
- Better to take a population based approach
Why should there be an increased interest in FN education?
Public: increase demand for HEc education
Youth: Some found high school F&N classes helpful, others did not
University students: 72% want nutrition education programming at their institution
-hands on, fun, practical, and multi-faceted
What are things to consider when continuing this kind of research?
Not a solution to obesity Who will teach these classes -qualified teachers What will the curriculum be? -teachers can't teach from their own ideology When&Where should they be taught? -9/10 but don't care, 11/12 need uni prep courses How will we do it? -Programs and policies (better
Why is there a push to bring back HEc?
Health crises (overweight, obesity) -fast food is inexpensive & convenient -many people lack food skills Parents lack time/skills/energy to teach Both boys and girls need HEc education
Why hasn’t HEc never really left?
- Some schools don’t offer it but some still do
- Lack of awareness because its now called different names
- Shift to commercial cooking (not family aspect)
- Decreased funding for F&N classes/kitchens
- Not all teachers have appropriate background to teach Fam Studies classes
What are the strengths of HEc field?
- Holistic field in specialist world
- Broad recognition of the importance of integration skills to solve complex problems
- Discipline for everyday life
- Basic skills are still much needed (need to be ready to tell them how to do something)
- Subject matter is socially important and its professionals are socially necessary
- Answers peoples questions in language they can understand
What are strengths for the professionals?
Professionals are people who know how, who can do and who will help
Its professionals are experts at thee things everyone has to do everyday
-universities think practical studs should be done at a college
What are weaknesses of the profession and professionals?
- HEc profession is generally not well understood
- Position of HEEc within the education system is uncertain (at all levels people think it shouldn’t be taught, you learn how to do it on your own)
- Questions within the profession
- Continuing perception it is a woman profession
- Lack of political skills
How long is the history of HEc?
Relatively short history and relatively unaware of history it has
Does home HEc have known intellectual leaders?
No well known ones and no folk heroes
-none like Freud, Darwin or Florence Nightingale
Why is the subject matter a weakness for HEc?
Subject matter in concrete, specific and familiar
-people think the already know it
Why do we need to consider private and public values?
Helps people understand the differences between private and public value of HEc
More emphasis on the public value of our profession
What does children developmental health require?
Requires a holistic understanding of:
- physical health
- mental health
- Social and emotional competencies
- Cognitive abilities and skills
- educational attainment
What is children developmental health strongly and consistently associated with?
Increased likelihood of positive outcomes later in life
- educational achievement
- professional success
- better health
Decreased likelihood of negative outcomes
- unemployment
- criminal behaviour
- early mortality
Why do we focus on developmental health?
Current systems address single aspects of development
- health: physical aspect
- education: cognitive abilities
- social services: social and emotional needs
Leads to fragmented and uncoordinated care
Outcomes interconnected
How are outcomes interconnected in terms of why we focus on developmental health?
AN emotionally secure child is more able to concentrate on learning.
Success in learning is then reinforced by parents, teachers, and peer which in turn increases the Childs self confidence
What is the development of a Childs brain sensitive too?
Especially sensitive to environments and experiences in thee early years
Why is exposure to common and everyday challenges beneficial?
Challenges that are developmentally appropriate tasks are beneficial in the long term if children area given the care support and opportunity to learn how to overcome and cope with them
-helps them develop confidence
What 2 enabling conditions are dependent on children development?
Family time
- time to care personally for children
- adequate income/financial resources
- educational and parenting skills
- knowledge and access to information
Universally accessible community services
- high quality
- health programs and services (for parents to achieve those skills and developmental milestones)
Where are the opportunities for Home economists in the current situation of HEc?
Supports health promo
Enhance fam functioning
Supports decision making that optimizes personal and family benefits
Understands how families are changing and what their needs are
Heck and related professionals are agents of knowledge transfer and of change
What are the generational differences?
Baby boomers
GenX
GenY
GenZ
Why are baby boomers important?
Are the predominant group in the hEc profession
- provide guidance, wisdom, mentoring
- ‘46-‘64
What are the differences between GenXYZ?
X ‘61-‘81
Y ‘82-‘02
Z ‘02-‘24
Are valuable resources
Have visions and abilities
- tech advances
- communicate digitally
In terms of community health development what are some challenges facing the world?
Vast migration (worldwide) -increased in separated families, will increase cause they won't tolerate the wars or inequalities in other countries His birth rates in some countries Climate change Food waste 1billion hungry, 2 billion people overweight/obese Aging population worldwide -More seniors, more expensive Wars/ conflict
How will the community challenges benefit from HEcs?
Will benefit from our multidisciplinary approach and our knowledge and skills
In terms of families, what is the key focus of the profession?
Families are important source of support, but are constantly changing
All generations need to teach skills
Digital communication is important, but we cannot eat live or shelter digitally
HEc is dying as celebrity chefs take over (but they know little of home and family)
Need to fight for our professions in an organized and coordinated way
At the professional level, what are practical actions to address communication of HEc?
Move to a consensus approach
-everyone gets a chance to talk, even if not on board move toward the right decision, no votes
Hold fewer debates and more dialogues
Establish electronic grassroots communication system
Use language that repeats holism and interconnectedness
At the professional level, what are practical actions to address nature oo meetings for HEcs?
Serve food at meetings to enhance community
Celebrate events to build a sense of community
Strive for less competition and more cooperation
At the professional level, what are practical actions to address heritage preservation of HEc?
Make a concerted effort to record and preserve the professions story
Widen your reading list to learn about the professional story
At the professional level, what are practical actions to address the focus work of HEc?
- Abandon the privilege and power you have gained through academic training and listen to others who are not as privileged
- Focus on diversity
- Focus on thee distribution of power, wealth and resources at local and global levels
- Take charge of situation (be assertive not arrogant)
- Keep family, women and community issues on the political agenda to balance the current focus on corporations
