CAREERS IN HOME

ECONOMICS
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 IMAGES CONJURED
• Menial Jobs
• Subject from students that are unable to
perform well academically.
• Common sense subject.
• Preparation for household
chores.

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 WHAT IS HOME ECONOMICS?
• Home economics is arts and science of home
making.

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 SCIENCE and ARTS ?
(CAKE MAKING)
 How each ingredients  Which colors work
functions to create the together to make the
desired consistency. cake attractive?
 The scientific principle  What design is suitable
of heat transfer for the occasion?
 What causes the  What textures and
mixture to rise? shapes are suitable?
 What causes the outer  What angle should I
crust of the cake to be hold the forcing bag
darker than the inside? when icing the cake?
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COMPONENTS OF HOME ECONOMICS
OFFERED AT ST JAGO HIGH
• Food and nutrition
• Clothing and textiles
• Home Management

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 WHY STUDY HOME ECONOMICS?

• Allows you to make responsible choices about

your diet and food.
• Helps you to manage your time, money and
other resources.
• Provides you with information which can be
disseminated to your parents and other members
of the society.
• Helps you to connect content you learn with real
life experience.

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WHY STUDY HOME ECONOMICS?

• Gives you a sense of self as and help you to

relate others.
• Allows you to become aware of values and
lifestyles that are different from your own.
• Helps you to make reasoned judgments in
family relationships

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 What will I learn in Home Economics?

Some of the things you will learn about are:

 Your body - what is good to eat and how to keep
healthy
 food - how it nourishes your body, how to choose it,
store it, and how to prepare and cook it
 using money - how to spend it wisely, how to save it,
and how you are protected as a consumer
 Your home - about design in the home, about safety
and hygiene.
 Practical assignments in food and nutrition, clothing &
textiles and home management

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CAREERS IN CLOTHING
& TEXTILES

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 FASHION DESIGNER
• A person who is creative enough to have new
ideas and practical enough to turn all those
ideas into a product.

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 FASHION STYLIST
• Takes other peoples’ ideas and puts them
together in ways that look fresh to the
original.
• Selects the clothing for magazines, television
advertising campaigns, music videos, public
appearances made by celebrities, models or
other public figures.

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 FABRIC DESIGNER
• Works very closely with the research
department of a textiles company to develop:
New weaves
Patterns
Prints
colour

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 FABRIC STYLIST
• Spots trends by visiting stores, talking to other
people and travelling to other parts of the
world to see what is selling there. The stylist
reports back to the textile designer with
recommendation for colour combinations and
print design.

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 COSTUME HISTORIAN
• Expert in clothing of eras past.
• Researchers who use documents and archives
from the museums, libraries, and historical
societies.
• Describe what people wore and explain how
these garments reflect the period of history.
• Authenticate garment for the auction house.
• Restore antique clothes given to a museum.
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 TEXTILES CHEMIST
Textiles Chemist are responsible for
• Creating new fibres
• Dyes
• Finishes – example water repellant finishes
Characteristics needed
Must be able to work with a team accurate,
patient and have a creative mind and talent
for problem solving
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 MARKETING
• Marketing is an overall term for the process
of buying and selling goods.
• People with jobs in marketing include:
• market researchers
• sales analysts
• advertising and promotion specialists
• sales representation

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 SALES ANALYSTS
• Sales analysts is the study of what has sold in
the past in order to predict what will sell in
the future.
• A careful analysis of sales can give the
manufacturer information about what styles,
colours and fabrics have traditionally sold in
best in different section of a country or
different parts of a world.

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 FASHION ILLUSTRATOR
• Specializes in drawing the human figure. The
drawing are usually drawn in a stylized
manner.
• This means that the figure
are taller, with longer arms and
legs and have more elegant faces
than real life drawing of people.

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 FASHION ILLUSTRATOR CONT’D
• Fashion illustrators must be able to use
texture and shading to indicate different types
of fabric.
• Fashion illustrators also work is used in
advertisement
• Catalogues
• pattern envelopes
• posters and anywhere fashion art is needed
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 FASHION PHOTOGRAPHEER
• Fashion photographers often photograph
models wearing high fashion clothes, jewelry,
shoes or hair accessory.
• Fashion photographers capture
the product in a creative way,
showing the aesthetic side
of the product with great
creative skill and eye for details.
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CAREERS IN FOOD& NUTRITION

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SCOPE OF FOOD & NUTRITION

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CAREERS IN FOOD& NUTRITION

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 FOOD STYLIST
• The role of the food stylist is to make the food
look attractive in the finished photograph.
• The main difference between how a home cook
or chef may present food and what a stylist does
is the time and effort a stylist takes to carefully
and artfully arrange the food.
• Requires the visual know how, and ability to
translate the perception of taste, aroma and
appeal that one gets from an actual dish, to a
two-dimensional photograph
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 FOOD CHEMIST
• Develop food standards and production
specifications, safety and sanitary regulations.
• Develop new food items for production.
• Develop new or improved ways of preserving,
processing, packaging, storing, and delivering
foods, using knowledge of chemistry,
microbiology, and other sciences.

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 SPORTS NUTRITIONIST
• Ensures that athletes maintain their fitness via
nutritional meals and drinks.
• Design meal plans with an emphasis on
increasing an athlete's energy and immunity
in addition to improving his concentration and
body development

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CAREERS IN HOME
MANAGEMENT

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 INTERIOR DECORATOR
• Decorates homes, shops, offices and other
professional environments.
• Works directly with clients, giving them advice
on which colour schemes, layout, wallpaper
and furniture are best for a particular space.

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 GERONTOLIGIST
• Involves scientific study of the biological,
psychological, and sociological
phenomena associated with old
age and aging
• Helps elderly citizens coping with
family problems, long-term
illnesses, disability issues,
unemployment etc.

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 CONSUMER ADVOCATE
• Manages, administers and coordinates
programs and services designed to empower
individuals who have been wronged by a
corporate or industry.

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 BEHAVIOUR THERAPIST
• Focus on changing undesirable behaviors.
• Work with troubled teens, younger children
with behavior problems, and the families and
professionals who live with, educate, treat
and assist in managing them.

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 NOW THAT YOU KNOW WILL YOU
BE THE NEXT…
• Mission catwalk winner
• Iron Chef
• Super nanny
• Fashion designer
• Fashion Journalist
• Inventor

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