SYSTEMS FRAMEWORKS TO FACILITATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMERGING PROFESSIONS USING HOME ECONOMICS FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES

Emerging professions are those which are in the process of developing their basic understandings and structure concerning what they believe, study and do in relation to what the field was, is, and should be. The purpose of this paper is to suggest the usefulness of a systems framework as one means of facilitating the development of an emerging profession. Home economics/human ecology is used as a particular case to illustrate this premise.