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Family Life Education: Issues and Challenges in Professional Practice

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This chapter reviews the field of family life education (FLE). This review begins with a historical overview of FLE as a field of study and an area of professional practice, with specific focus on the issues and challenges faced by family life educators and others in defining the scope, content, and goals of the field. Professionalization of the field is reviewed. Two major aspects of importance for ethical and appropriate professional practice are then discussed: (1) the role of family life educators’ philosophies of education in influencing programmatic efforts, and (2) approaches to curriculum development. The chapter concludes with a summary of areas of challenge for the field of FLE where continuing efforts for developing the field should focus.

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  1. Department of Family Studies and Social Work, Center for Human Development, Learning, and Technology, Miami University, 101 McGuffey Hall, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

    Charles B. Hennon PhD, CFLE

  2. Department of Family Studies and Social Work, Miami University, 101 McGuffey Hall, Oxford, OH, 45056, USA

    M. Elise Radina PhD, CFLE

  3. Department of Human Development and Family Science, College of Human Sciences, Oklahoma State University, 106 HS, Stillwater, OK, 74078, USA

    Stephan M. Wilson (Dean)

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Hennon, C.B., Radina, M.E., Wilson, S.M. (2013). Family Life Education: Issues and Challenges in Professional Practice. In: Peterson, G., Bush, K. (eds) Handbook of Marriage and the Family. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3987-5_33

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