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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Main Author:	Loy, Jia Shin
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2019
Subjects:	Educational games - Design and construction Social skills in children
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/98011/1/FRSB%202021%203%20UPM%20IR.pdf
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spelling	my-upm-ir.980112022-07-12T04:54:31Z Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children 2019-10 Loy, Jia Shin 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. Educational games - Design and construction Social skills in children 2019-10 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/98011/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/98011/1/FRSB%202021%203%20UPM%20IR.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Educational games - Design and construction Social skills in children Rahman, Ahmad Rizal
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language	English
advisor	Rahman, Ahmad Rizal
topic	Educational games - Design and construction Social skills in children
spellingShingle	Educational games - Design and construction Social skills in children Loy, Jia Shin Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
description	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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qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Loy, Jia Shin
author_facet	Loy, Jia Shin
author_sort	Loy, Jia Shin
title	Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
title_short	Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
title_full	Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
title_fullStr	Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
title_full_unstemmed	Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children
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granting_institution	Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate	2019
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Development of educational toy design attributes for cultivating social skills among preschool children

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