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Home Economics provides students with knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for managing their own lives, for further higher education and work.
The learning experience in Home Economics develop flexibility and adaptability in students , preparing them to live in a consumer – oriented society and provide a learning foundation for a wide range of careers in food, textiles , science, design , social studies and tourism. It is concerned with the management of resources (material and human) to meet the physical, emotional, intellectual, social, and economic needs of individual and families.
Home Economics advocate skills for life to achieve optimal health and sustainable wellbeing for individual, families and communities
We believe it is important for individual to be empowered to make healthy choices and take responsibility for their own health and well-being.
Home economics education facilitates the development of knowledge and skills to assist with the development of independent, resourceful consumer citizen capable of making informed decision and establishing work life balance.
We believe this is achieved by engaging young people in a variety of home economics context such food, nutrition and health, consumerism and resource management, human development and family studies