Family and Consumer Sciences Education, Part 3

Question 1: List the common goals that family and consumer sciences education attempts to accomplish as set by the Association for Career and Technical Education.

Answer 1: The Association for Career and Technical Education has identified nine goals commonly associated with family and consumer sciences education. These nine goals include:1. Improving the overall quality of life for individuals and families.2. Helping individuals and families become responsible members of society.3. Encouraging healthy eating habits, nutrition, and lifestyles.4. Improve how individuals and families manage their resources.5. Helping individuals and families balance their personal, family, and work lives.6. Teaching individuals better problem-solving techniques.7. Encouraging personal and career development.8. Teaching individuals to successfully function as both consumers and providers.9. Recognizing human worth and taking responsibility for one’s own actions.

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Question 2: Explain the importance of improving the overall quality of life to family and consumer sciences education and explain some of the ways that this education attempts to improve the overall quality of life.

Answer 2: The first of the nine goals established for family and consumer sciences education is to improve the overall quality of life for individuals and families, which is also the primary mission of all the goals. Family and consumer sciences education teaches people about how individuals, families, and the rest of society interact with each other, along with methods for improving those interactions. These methods include problem-solving techniques, common scams and problems to avoid, methods to stay healthy both physically and psychologically, and the distribution of a variety of other information regarding how the individual, family, and the rest of society function. Ultimately, family and consumer sciences education strives to improve the quality of life by educating individuals and families in the best manner to function on a day-to-day basis. However, this goal is truly accomplished only when the other eight goals of family and consumer sciences education are met as well.

Question 3: Explain the importance of using affective, cognitive, and psychomotor skills together in an individual’s day-to-day living.

Answer 3: It is extremely important for an individual to be able to use a combination of his or her affective, cognitive, and psychomotor skills together on a day-to-day basis, as each type of skill is essential to the overall functioning of a healthy individual. An individual who has mastered his or her psychomotor skills may be in excellent physical health, but the individual’s emotional and intellectual health will suffer if he or she is unable to make effective relationships and understand basic and complex concepts. The situation is the same for individuals who can only maintain effective relationships or who can only understand complex concepts, as it will be significantly more difficult for them to perform everyday functions if they have poor control of their psychomotor skills. For an individual to maintain his or her physical and mental health, along with that of his or her family, the individual must be able to use a combination of different skills.

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