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Middle and Senior Years Home Economics Curriculum Renewal

Development Status Report

View the updated Middle Years Human Ecology curriculum for Manitoba on the Manitoba Education website

Manitoba Education and Advanced Learning started the Middle Years Home Economics Curriculum renewal in November 2013. The team who worked on this initiative was composed of five urban and rural Home Economics teachers, a University of Manitoba representative and the project lead from the Department. Seven essential foundations were integrated across the disciplines of study (Food, Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles, and Family Studies) with the revitalization of the Middle and Senior Years Curriculum. The new curriculum is a progression of Home Economics with a new logo, the renewed name of Human Ecology, as well as, themes that will provide flexibility for the disciplines of Food, Nutrition, Clothing and Textiles and Family Studies. System-wide implementation of the Middle Years curriculum was in Fall 2016.

A Senior Years Home Economics Curriculum renewal has taken place as well. Voluntary implementation is 2018-19 and system-wide implementation is 2019-20.

Media reports on the curriculum update:

• Province Promises Long-Overdue Update of Home Economics Curriculum (Manitoba Cooperator, November, 2013)