Home Management Waec Syllabus
Below is this 2024 Waec Syllabus for Home Management. Note that this syllabus is for both internal and external candidates.
Aims and Objectives
- management concepts; goals, values, standards and needs
- decision–making processes
- human and material resources available for managing a home
- basic skills needed in caring for the home and society
- consumer skills
- sound health practices
- self-reliant skills for effective living
Scheme of Examination
There will be three papers, Papers 1, 2, and 3, all of which must be taken. Papers 1 and 2 will be composite papers to be taken in one sitting.
Paper 1:
This will comprise fifty multiple-choice objective questions, all of which are to be answered in 1 hour for 50 marks.
Paper 2:
This will comprise six essay questions, out of which candidates will be required to answer four within 1 hour and 15 minutes for 50 marks.
Paper 3:
This will be a 3-hour practical test of three hours which will be conducted by a visiting examiner that will be appointed by WAEC. This paper will carry 100 marks.
Detailed Home Management Syllabus
PRINCIPLE OF MANAGEMENT
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- Definition of Home Management
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- Careers in Home Management
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- The Management Process
- Planning
- Organization
- Implementation
- Evaluation
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- Application of Process to Specific Tasks
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- Motivations for Home Management
- Personal characteristics
- Values
- Goals
- Standards
- Needs
- Events
- Events
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- Family Resources
- Definition
- Characteristics
- Kinds – Human (time energy skill, work simplification as it applies to the home)
- Non-human/material
- community
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- Decision–making
- Definition
- Process
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- Management of Time and Energy
FAMILY LIVING
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- The Family
- Definition
- Types – Nuclear, Monogamous, Polygamous, Extended
- Advantages and disadvantages of each type of family.
- Family life cycle – beginning, Expanding, contracting and Empty –nest.
- Functions of the family
- Roles and responsibilities of family members (e.g. mother, father, Children, working mothers, single parents, etc.)
- Family relationships (e.g. husband and wife, parent/child, sibling/sibling, nuclear and extended families.)
- Factors affecting family relationships, e.g., communication and family values.
- The effect of these relations on Wellbeing
- Conflict and conflict resolution.
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- Courtship and Marriage
- Types of marriage
- Boy/Girl relationship – definition
- traditional/custom
- guidelines for a healthy boy/girl relationship
- problems of unhealthy boy/girl relationship
- Consequences of Indiscriminate Sexual Indulgence
- sex education
- Choosing a life partner
- factors to consider when choosing a partner e.g. blood group, genotype, HIV status.
- dating, courtship, engagement
- Preparation for marriage
- Readiness: where to live, maturity, finances
- Introduction to each other’s family
- Marriage Ceremony – Marriage ceremonies in different localities.
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- Parenthood
- Preparation for parenthood
- Planning a family
- Reproduction
- Pregnancy
- Ante-natal care
- Childbirth
- labour
- delivery
- post-natal care – immunization
- Parenting
- meaning
- importance
- responsibilities
- provision of needs
- bathing
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- Feeding the family
- Classes of food and food nutrients
- Scientific study of good nutrients
- Effect of heat on nutrients
- Special nutrition needs of infants, toddlers, adolescents, adults, pregnant women, lactating women, the aged, convalescents, invalids and vegetarians.
- Food Storage and Preservation
- Planning of balanced meals for different groups of people
- Kitchen plan, hygiene and safety
- Food Purchasing
- Preparation and serving of meals, snacks and beverages
- Entertainment
CLOTHING THE FAMILY
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- Clothing
- Meaning, types, functions
- Origin of fibres
- Classification of fibres/fabrics
- Weaving, knitting, crocheting etc.
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- Household linen
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- Textiles
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- Fabric construction
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- Planning a Wardrobe
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- Maintenance of clothing
- Simple garment repairs
- Laundry agents – water, detergents, fabric rinses, stiffening agents, bleaches
- Laundry equipment and tools
- Laundry work
- management of the family wash laundry
- stains and stain removal
- care of special garments
- Sewing equipment and tools
- Sewing processes
- Storage of clothing
HOUSING THE FAMILY
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- Family House
- Definition of House
- Types of House e.g. storey building, bungalow, duplex etc
- Classification of Houses
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- Choosing a family house
- acquiring a house
- Renting
- Mortgage
- Building
- Buying
- inheritance
- Gift
- Factors influencing the choice of a house
- Economic
- Social
- Psychological
- sites
- Ventilation in the house
- Design
- Guidelines for choosing a family house
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- Setting up a home
- Definition: Difference between a home and a house
- Equipment and furnishing in the home
- Types – Large and small equipment
- Hard and soft
- Furnishing
- Fixture
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- Home Improvement/Interior Decoration
- meaning and importance
- element and principles of art and design and their application
- Colours
- Textures
- Lines
- Proportion
- Rythme etc.
- Guidelines for interior decoration
- Flower arrangements
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- Utilities in the Home
- Water – Sources, uses, purification, storage.
- Light – electricity – meter reading, electric bill
- Fuels – uses, storage, control, advantages and disadvantages.
- cooking gas
- kerosene
- firewood
- charcoal
- electricity
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- Simple home maintenance and Repairs
- cleaning agents and materials – identification, preparation and use of local and commercial cleaning agents
- water
- soaps
- abrasives
- polishes
- cleaning equipment and tools
- care of surfaces
- wood
- tile
- Formica
- concrete
- plastic etc.
- Care of floors/floor coverings/Finishing
- Carpets
- Linoleums
- Mats
- Rugs
- terrazzo
- parquet etc
- Care of home furnishings and ornaments
- ceramics
- metals
- collage etc
- Cleaning of different functional areas in the home
- Bed making
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- Safety Measures in the Home
- importance
- common accidents
- prevention
- use of first aid
- Sanitation: Definition
- Waste disposal
- Household waste
- Drainage system
- Disposal methods
- Pollution and health hazards.
- Household pests
- Types
- Control
Wealth Creation and Management
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- Creativity and Entrepreneurship
- Meaning
- Importance
- Relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial skills
- Creativity
- Management
- Communication
- Entrepreneurial Activities and Enterprises
- Fashion designing
- Hairdressing
- Fast Foods
- Bead making, etc.
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- Money Management
- Meaning
- Guidelines
- processes
- Family budget – income, expenditure, steps in budgeting
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- Wealth Creation
- Meaning
- Types
- Advantages
- Ways of creating wealth e.g. saving, investment, trading etc.
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- Capital Market Investment
- Meaning
- Advantages
- Guidelines
- Investment opportunities e.g. stocks, shares, treasury bills.
Consumer Education
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- Definition and Importance of Consumer Education
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- Rights and Responsibilities of a Consumer
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- Consumer Information
- sources
- Uses
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- Consumer Legislation and Agencies
- Types
- Functions
- Regulations of agencies
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- Principles of consumer education
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- Consumer Agents
- Types
- Functions
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- Environmental-Friendly Consumption Practice
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- Purchasing practices
- Market and market survey
- Meaning
- Types
- Uses/importance
- Procedures for market survey
- Wise purchasing practices
- Prevention of wastage in the home.
READING TEXTS
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- Home Management by R.O. Johnson, A. Akingbehin and J. Mifie. Longman Publishers
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- Home Management for Secondary Schools by Enid O’Reilly Wright & Lillian Adesimi – Davies Publishers – Evans Brothers Ltd.
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- Home Management for Secondary Schools (1-3) by Mary Edna Aufani Joe, Oby Eyisi et al. University Press Plc. Publishers.
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- Home Management for Secondary Schools 1005 OQ & A Series by Elizabeth Anyakoha. Fep Publisher Ltd.
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