Exploring Fundamental Concepts for Home Economics and Family and Consumer Sciences Practice Using A Philosophy of Home Economics by Fusa Sekiguchi

This article explores fundamental concepts in Sekiguchi’s 2004 English translation of A Philosophy of Home Economics and their similarity to the critical science conceptualization of family and consumer sciences in the United States. Like Brown and Paolucci’s landmark 1979 Definition of Home Economics, Sekiguchi’s book draws from many scholars from different disciplines and countries. She builds on existential philosophy, but goes beyond it through the work of German philosopher and educator Otto Friedrich Bollnow (1903–1991), who was influential in the human science movement in German education partly because of his book, translated in 2008 as Human Space, one of the most comprehensive studies of space as we experience it. His work is said to lie within and between existentialism and phenomenology, dwelling on the home as the primary world of human existence and the center of security and protection from the larger world. Sekiguchi and her colleagues worked 10 years to develop their conceptualization of the principles of the profession, which the authors of this article encourage family and consumer sciences professionals to discuss

Conceptualization · Epistemology · Existentialism · Family and consumer science · German · Human science · Mathematics education · Social science · Sociology · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Philosophy · Psychology

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