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ABSTRACT
This study aimed at analyzing the challenges militating against the effective teaching and learning of home economics in junior secondary schools in Edo State, Nigeria. The study was motivated by the alarming rate at which secondary school students were abandoning home economics in preference of other school subjects as they felt home economics is meant only ladies and those who want to go into vocational and technical training after their secondary school education. Therefore, if nothing is done, no student will offer Home Economics in secondary schools again and if there are no such students in future, there will be no student offering home economics as a course of study in higher institutions.
Questionnaire was used to collect data from one hundred and twenty (120) junior secondary school students from Egor Local Government Area. Descriptive survey design was employed for the investigation. The data obtained were analyzed using simple percentage. Based on the result of the findings, recommendations were made in respect to motivating students’ interest. Some of the findings include that inadequate availability of instructional material is a pitfall to both the students and the teachers. Most teachers do not have the necessary qualifications and as well lack the competence to use the available instructional materials.
