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- Title
Critical Thinking Skills in Family and Consumer Sciences Education.
- Authors
Swafford, Melinda; Rafferty, Elizabeth
- Abstract
Family and consumer sciences (FCS) is an interdisciplinary study of the relationships between humans and their social, natural, and built environments. Critical thinking has been a vital part of the profession since its beginning. Ellen Swallow Richards founded the discipline in 1899 on the premise of improving quality of life for individuals, families, and communities by using critical thinking skills. The postmodern perspective of the profession integrates knowledge and applies science to complex issues facing families in society (Richards, 2000). Using this perspective, FCS educators help individuals use critical thinking to make informed decisions about well-being, relationships, and resources to achieve optimal quality of life. The National Association of State Administrators for Family and Consumer Sciences (NASAFCS) advocates critical thinking skills to promote reasoning for technical, interpretive, and reflective action on a problem while connecting academic and FCS content in the classroom (NASAFCS, 2008).
- Subjects
CRITICAL thinking; FAMILIES; NATIONAL Association of State Administrators for Family &; Consumer Sciences; QUALITY of life; RICHARDS, Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta), 1842-1911
- Publication
Journal of Family & Consumer Sciences, 2016, Vol 108, Issue 4, p13
- ISSN
1082-1651
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.14307/JFCS108.4.13