Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
Designs of educational toys play a significant role in developing the social skills of preschool children. At present, studies are limited as to how the designs of educational toys are able to contribute to these social skills, thus creating a need to determine social development attributes in...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2019
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/98011/1/FRSB%202021%203%20UPM%20IR.pdf |
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| Summary: | Designs of educational toys play a significant role in developing the social skills
of preschool children. At present, studies are limited as to how the designs of
educational toys are able to contribute to these social skills, thus creating a need
to determine social development attributes in educational toys design for
preschool children to cultivate their social competency. The purpose of this
thesis is to develop a set of educational toys design attributes in cultivating social
skills of preschool children. Based on this purpose, prior investigations were
carried out on methods in promoting positive social development towards young
children and how they are affected by the design of educational toys. This study
uses literature reviews to identify the relationship of play, educational toys and
social skills towards the development of children, and subsequently showed that
role play and peer interactions provided strong influences. Observations and
interviews were carried out to further determine the use of role play and peer
interactions in toy designs, which includes the application of triangulation
technique in validity. Results of the study consists of the attributes of children’s
social skills development and the relationships towards types of educational toys.
These leads towards the guidelines and criteria in designing educational toys for
the social skills development of preschool children. The attributes determined are
allow multiplayers, shareable toys, win-lose system, allow children to express
(verbally), promotes active plays and sensory trigger. The results show that
these toys can serve as the platform for children to develop their social skills.
Moreover, this research will serve as a guideline for parents or the public to have
a deeper understanding towards the social development of children, which would
nurture the growth and improve their attitude towards the children’s future
success. In addition, it will also contribute towards future related research fields
and benefits designers in the toy industry to have better insight when developing
new toys. |
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