Leaving Certificate Home Economics provides students with knowledge, understanding, skills and attitudes necessary for managing their own lives, for further and higher education and work. The learning experiences in Home Economics develop flexibility and adaptability in students, prepare them for a consumer-oriented society and provide a learning foundation for a wide range of careers in food, textiles, science, design, social studies and tourism. This syllabus is for students in the senior cycle of post-primary education and is assessed at Higher and Ordinary levels.
Aims:
The aims of the syllabus are to:
• provide continuity and progression from the aims and content of the Junior Certificate home economics programme
• allow students, male and female, to acquire and develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, competence and attitudes necessary to contribute to a personal and family environment conducive to human development, health, leisure, security, and happiness
• provide a suitable basis for the formation of post-school life, with the emphasis on future education, vocational training and employment needs; to include the particular needs of the food industry, clothing, textile and craft industries, tourism, and social and health services; and to develop an appreciation of the significance of their learning to the Irish economy and the European Union
• develop an understanding of the physical, emotional, intellectual, economic and social needs of individuals or families and to encourage an appreciation of the diversity of socioeconomic and cultural influences on family life
• encourage students to develop and apply the management skills necessary for the effective organisation and management of available resources to satisfy personal and family needs in a continuously changing economic, social and technological climate
• develop an awareness of the interdependence of the individual or family and the environment and to promote a sense of responsibility to global issues
• be sensitive to aspects of Irish and European cultures
• nurture and develop a spirit of enterprise, inventiveness, aesthetic awareness, and creativity
• encourage students to become discerning consumers, able to seek out and evaluate information and weigh evidence as a basis for making sound judgements and choices
• develop an awareness of health and safety practices in activities related to Home Economics
• develop personal qualities: perseverance, self-confidence, co-operativeness, team spirit, adaptability, and flexibility.
The aims of the syllabus are to:
• provide continuity and progression from the aims and content of the Junior Certificate home economics programme
• allow students, male and female, to acquire and develop the knowledge, understanding, skills, competence and attitudes necessary to contribute to a personal and family environment conducive to human development, health, leisure, security, and happiness
• provide a suitable basis for the formation of post-school life, with the emphasis on future education, vocational training and employment needs; to include the particular needs of the food industry, clothing, textile and craft industries, tourism, and social and health services; and to develop an appreciation of the significance of their learning to the Irish economy and the European Union
• develop an understanding of the physical, emotional, intellectual, economic and social needs of individuals or families and to encourage an appreciation of the diversity of socioeconomic and cultural influences on family life
• encourage students to develop and apply the management skills necessary for the effective organisation and management of available resources to satisfy personal and family needs in a continuously changing economic, social and technological climate
• develop an awareness of the interdependence of the individual or family and the environment and to promote a sense of responsibility to global issues
• be sensitive to aspects of Irish and European cultures
• nurture and develop a spirit of enterprise, inventiveness, aesthetic awareness, and creativity
• encourage students to become discerning consumers, able to seek out and evaluate information and weigh evidence as a basis for making sound judgements and choices
• develop an awareness of health and safety practices in activities related to Home Economics
• develop personal qualities: perseverance, self-confidence, co-operativeness, team spirit, adaptability, and flexibility.
Assessment:
Assessment will be in the form of a terminal written examination and an assessment of practical work, which is an integral part of the study of Home Economics. There will also be an assessment of practical work for those candidates who study the textiles, fashion and design elective.
Assessment will be in the form of a terminal written examination and an assessment of practical work, which is an integral part of the study of Home Economics. There will also be an assessment of practical work for those candidates who study the textiles, fashion and design elective.