Home Economics is among the vocational subjects taught in Nigerian secondary
schools. Secondary education is the education that children receive after primary education
(Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004). It is a six year programme which is partitioned into two
tiers: three years of junior secondary schooling (JSS) and three years of senior secondary
schooling (SSS). At the junior secondary level, Home Economics in one of the prevocational
subjects offered and taught as an integrated subject, which comprises food and
nutrition, clothing and textile, and home management. The objective of Home Economics in
schools curriculum is to teach learners how to strategically plan and use available resources in
their environment to improve their homes, families and society life. Okpala