Departments of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) are a disciplinary descendent of home economics, which emerged in the late 1800s as a product of progressivism, funding tied to agriculture, and misogyny in higher education. The study of development and family joined home economics departments in the 1930s and 1940s. Some home economics departments were dismantled in the 1960s and others were transformed into HDFS. Other home economics subdisciplines separated and matured into new independent disciplines. This history is illustrated with the story of my own department at Fresno State. The loss of the home economics name created fragmentation, producing a visibility problem and a disciplinary identity crisis for HDFS. I propose a pragmatic focus on our departmental (rather than disciplinary) identities to unify us for collective action. I also propose that we embrace our interdisciplinary nature by using a kinship metaphor of disciplinarity rather than the more common territorial metaphor.

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人类发展与家庭科学：学科碎片化与亲缘关系的故事


人类发展和家庭科学系 (HDFS) 是家政学的一个学科后代，它出现于 1800 年代末，是进步主义、与农业相关的资金以及高等教育中厌女症的产物。发展和家庭的研究在 20 世纪 30 年代和 40 年代加入了家政学系。 20世纪60年代，一些家政部门被拆除，另一些则改造成HDFS。其他家政学分支学科分离并成熟为新的独立学科。这段历史可以用我在弗雷斯诺州立大学的部门的故事来说明。家政名称的丢失造成了碎片化，给 HDFS 带来了可见性问题和纪律认同危机。我建议务实地关注我们的部门（而不是纪律）身份，以团结我们采取集体行动。我还建议我们通过使用纪律的亲属隐喻而不是更常见的领土隐喻来拥抱我们的跨学科本质。