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Abstract

Home Economics, as a subject that is always busy with being mundane as a domestic discipline, is a silent but revolutionary force in the social sciences, which is tough on families and societies. The present paper illustrates the interdisciplinary value of Home Economics, which has been regarded as crucial where it intersects with nutrition, sustainable development, gender equity, family resource management, and consumer sciences. Culturally seen as a skills-oriented course in managing the household, the discipline has retrogressed into a live and active academic field, which encounters extremely relevant issues that face the whole world, including, but not limited to, food security, mental wellbeing, and economic sustainability. Home Economics offers people a set of life skills to advance their welfare, both personal and societal, as it incorporates the principles of psychology, sociology, and public policy. Its contributions towards financial literacy, healthy lifestyles, and environmental sustainability serve to highlight the overarching impacts on society, especially the marginalized communities. Moreover, the field disrupts the conventionality of gender by supporting fair sharing of household chores and empowerment of women in socio-economic areas. This paper provides insights into the role of Home Economics education in poverty alleviation and intergenerational knowledge waves, as well as crisis-based adaptive coping responses through case study analysis and theoretical discussion. Against the backdrop of modern urbanization and the shift to technically advanced households, the paper pleads the case of reinvigorating Home Economics in social science curricula as having the potential to raise sovereign communities and knowledgeable citizens. This piece shifts its own discourse on home economics, in that it is no longer about home but rather about empowerment and describes home economics as an important, though shunned, generator of sustainable growth and community integration. This data promotes policy combination and cross-functional involvement so that it can enhance its power of transformation in the modern field of education and the development of society.