TRENDS IN HOME ECONOMICS: AN EMPLOYMENT GENERATING PROFESSION FOR NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Home economics is a rich profession. It is bewildered with vocations and careers like teaching and floristry. As a noble profession, it is affected by some new areas of trends intensity. This study exhumes some trending issues in home economics as a vocational and career discipline and elucidates some challenges facing it without which its multi-faceted approaches in human ecology would sufficiently widen its propensity through incorporating ingredients in science and technology to boost employment for the citizenry for national development.