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Sunshine Girl

TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Linda likes swimming
and reading in her spare time. Places
she has traveiied include Palm Springs and
Disneyland. Her favorite actress is Julia Roberts.

UNIVERSITY OF B.C.
(UBC) education professor
Dr. Linda Peterat is cur-
rently conducting a study of
student experiences in home
economics and family
studies courses and is hop-
ing to talk to students who
have taken the courses over
the past 20 years.

Peterat is one of four pro-
fessors across Canada working
together to collect stories of stu-
dents’ experiences in home eco-
nomics and family studies classes.

She said that because of a lack
of research in the area very little is
known about how useful home
economics and family studies
courses are to students who take
them.

Peterat said that students either
fove or hate the subject and that
experiences have either been very
positive or very negative.

She wants to examine the dif-
ferent opinions to find out more
about people’s experiences and
why those experiences in home
economic courses have been good
and memorable but not so good
for others.

Peterat said she expects the in-
formation will be valuable in con-
sidering the future of family
studies and home economic
courses in the school curriculum.
She is hoping to talk to women,
but especially men, who have
taken the courses over the past 20
years.

The courses could have been
called food science, food and
nutrition, life skills, family
management, child studies, family
life, iextiles and clothing or many
similar titles.

Participants will be asked to
complete a questionnaire asking
the following questions:

@ what course or courses did you
take?

Wednesday, July 29, 1992 - North Shore News — 44

UBC prof to study students’
home economics experiences

@ what did you study and what
did you learn?

@ how did the courses help you
as a teenager?

@ how have the courses helped
you since you left school?

@ were your experiences
courses positive or negative?

Participants may also choose to
be interviewed rather than filling
out a questionnaire.

The study has been approved by
the UBC Behavioral Sciences
Screening Committee for Research
and Other Studies Involving
Human Subjects. All information
will be confidential and question-
Raires and interviews will be

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