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Apple, Rima D. / The challenge of constantly changing times: from home economics to human ecology at the University of Wisconsin--Madison 1903-2003
(2003)

Table of contents,   pp. [v]-[vi]


Page [v]

Table of Contents
List of Illustrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . vii
Foreword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . xii
by Robin A. Douthitt, Dean
Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . xvi
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . xviii
Part 1: Domestic Science to Human Ecology
by Rima D. Apple and Joyce Coleman
Chapter 1: The Beginning, 1903-1908: "The final . . . . . . . .
. .
1
test of the teaching of home economics is freedom"
Chapter 2: The Expansion of Home Economics, . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1909-1939: "The greatest need of America today is a wisely
educated womanhood"
Chapter 3: Consolidation, 1939-1961: "Personal and. . . . . . .
48
family life have been greatly enhanced by the knowledge
and skills...acquired at the U.W."
Chapter 4: Turbulence, 1961-1985: "The School is . . . . . . . .
68
literally attacking societal problems that focus on family life
with a definite objective of making the world better"
Chapter 5: Towards the Second Century, 1985- : . . . . . . . . . 92
"Home ec is no longer dominated by 'cooking and sewing.'
Thank the Lord!!"

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