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Item How do they feel about cooking? The status of cooking and food skills among young adults(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2022) Gaston, Marcy Elizabeth; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: J. Mitchell VaterlausWith negative perceptions and many cited barriers to cooking, along with the advances in technology promoting convenience foods, young adults may be entering adulthood without the basic cooking skills (CS) and food skills (FS) needed to stave off increases in obesity and chronic disease. Most of the previous research regarding the decline of CS and the perceptions of cooking have relied on quantitative designs. With few qualitative studies available, this study expands quantitative studies beyond a focus of older generations and shifts the focus to experiences within young adulthood. A historical overview of Home Economics in the United States and the state of Montana provided context for the current situation of declining cooking skills among several generations in America. A phenomenological qualitative approach was used to understand the shared experience of a phenomenon, that of the loss of CS and FS among young adults in the United States (Creswell & Poth, 2018). A total of 93 surveys from food and nutrition professionals (i.e., Registered Dietitian Nutritionists [RDN] and Family and Consumer Sciences [FCS] teachers) and 270 surveys (and 9 interviews) with young adults (ages 18-25) were completed. Young adults understood the health and nutritional benefits of CS and FS as they entered adulthood. They elaborated on the challenges related to cooking such as time, tight financial resources, and the lack of CS and FS. Food and nutrition professionals provided insight into challenges to teaching CS, such as lack of time and funding. Participants, collectively, shared that a hands-on approach to teaching CS and FS while utilizing social media would be the best strategy to address this issue. Understanding the historical roots of CS decline aligned with the contemporary experiences shared by participants, this research indicates that young adults want to learn CS and FS that are relevant to their own lives as they enter adulthood. By utilizing practical teaching solutions and concentrating on the foundational CS, young adults can have a better understanding of food and nutrition, and this may be an approach to address the nutrition-related health issues facing the United States.Item Educational and demographic changes in secondary vocational agriculture and home economics in Montana as a result of Title IX(Montana State University - Bozeman, 1979) Shelhamer, Clinton Van; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Max L. AmbersonItem Equipment for consumer homemaking and occupational training in child development and food areas(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1975) Wegner, Patsy MerrittItem The public's perception of extension in Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1988) Garoutte, Charlene RichItem Mobilizing the rural home front : the extension service, Montana women, and World War II(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2003) Werner, Kathleen Elizabeth; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Mary MurphyThe U.S. government’s push to mobilize all sectors of its population during World War II has taken many forms. For women, most of the attention has focused on urban workers and others who may have engaged in factory work. Rural women, however, were important during the war. Agricultural production was vital to America’s success; a country needs to feed its people to win a war. Unlike the popularization of work in the factories, women’s labor in agricultural production was not feminized. The government worked to create an ideology for rural women that preserved their identity as homemakers but also encouraged agricultural labor. In the rural front, women had to be pulled into the effort; mobilizing them to the cause was essential to national unity. The purpose of this research is to examine the mobilization efforts made towards rural Montana women. What kinds of messages did the national press issue to women, and specifically, to what extent did the Montana Home Extension Service participate in assisting the government’s construction of rural women’s wartime identity? Examining the Cooperative Extension Service’s annual reports in Montana demonstrates how the government sought to mobilize rural women. By looking at Montana State College Home Economics Department’s domestic and scientific training demonstrates how rural women were helped during the war years. Lastly, by comparing those findings with national magazines idea of women’s identity in World War II shows the importance of homemakers. The study reveals that rural women were presented as patriotic homemakers, whose sole aim was to preserve democratic ideals and safeguard the family.Item Attitudes expressed by Montana high school home economics teachers concerning career education(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1977) Tingey, Lana Mae ThomasItem A study of the current status of home economics consumer education in Cooperative Extension youth programs in the United States and specifically Montana(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1973) Wallace, Beverly B.Item The economic status of married male senior under-graduates, graduates, and GI-benefit students, and attitudes toward a family finance course(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1967) Watson, Shirley Jean SeifertItem Work experience as part of the occupational home economics teacher preparation program(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1982) Dennee, Phyllis MarieItem Using a Finite Mixture Model of Heterogeneous Households to Delineate Housing Submarkets(2012) Belasco, Eric J.; Farmer, M. C.; Lipscomb, C.We use a finite mixture model to identify latent submarkets from household demographics that estimates a separate hedonic regression equation for each submarket. The method is a relatively robust empirical tool to extract submarkets from demographic information with far less effort than suspected. This method draws from latent class models to group observations in a straightforward data-driven manner. Additionally, the unique information about each submarket is easily derived and summarized. Results are also shown to more convincingly sort submarkets than a prior study in the same area that used more comprehensive data.