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This research aims to analyze the research trend of practical arts education, i.e. home economics area in particular, from 1970 to 2005. Included for analysis are 100 masters' or doctors' thesis, 76 feature articles in two major practical arts education, Korean Journal of Home-Economics, and 39 articles published in journals of several national universities of education. Categorization method here is to integrate German, American, and Korean ways. In general, as a result, there have been a number of research works in education environment or on curriculum while relatively few in paradigm, method, evaluation, research method (especially utilizing information technology). Practical arts education, as itself to be practical, we need to further develop the method of cooperative education, student-centered education, problem-based education, which is indispensable in the so-called information society. The two major journals in the practical arts education seem to be differentiated or specialized each other in terms of research focus, which is desirable. And integrated research on education system or structure of the relationship among paradigm, curriculum, methods, performance evaluation can be another horizon for future research.