Educational Toys Research Articles

Criteria for Educational Toys for Pre-School Visually Impaired Children

There is a large variety of educational toys on today's market. This article presents criteria for selecting toys suitable for visually impaired children: (1) Does it fulfill the individual child's developmental needs? (2) It is attractive enough to stimulate a visually impaired child's interest? (3) If there is a specific purpose for the toy, does it fill this function? (4) Are the cost, size, and noise of the toy compatible with the environment where the child will use it.

Extending Bilingual Education into the Home*

ABSTRACT Several studies have stressed the learning advantage of young children, especially before age three, and described successful reading by children aged two or three. Bilingual/bicultural education can benefit from tapping the learning potential of preschool‐aged children‐either by a lowered school‐entering age or by extending the school into the home. Theoretically, out‐of‐school learning has the advantage of involving grandparents as a source of traditional folk materials, parents as active users of the non English language, and older children as tutors. The school also has responsibilities for providing daily bilingual television programs, mobile classrooms, trained home visitors, educational toys, books, and other materials; and for helping to organize, monitor, and evaluate such programs. Such out‐of‐school learning could suggest new principles and strategies for the enrichment of bilingual education and help provide children with two media of learning as they begin their formal schooling.

An Honors Seminar for All Students

An Honors Seminar for All Students

Cognitive Development: The Child's Acquisition of Diagonality

Contents: Foreword. Preface. Introduction. Conceptualizing Conceptualizing: The Diagonal as an Interesting Problem. The Nature of the Difficulty. The Effects of Instruction. The Change in the Mind of the Child. Instruction Revisited: Perceptual, Motor, and Linguistic Factors in Cognitive Development. Personal and Cultural Experiences in Conceptual Development: The Acquisition of the Diagonal in East Africa. Looking, Seeing, and Knowing -- Eye Movement Studies. The Effects of an Educational Toy on Intellectual Development. Conclusions: Some Aspects of a Theory of Cognitive Development.

Books for Babies

INTEREST IN THE YOUNG has gradually filtered down the age scale so that now even babies come under the spotlight of serious attention. Whereas at one time children were treated as miniature adults and expected to behave as such, nowadays the character of each age group is respected and its needs are catered for. In many cases formal education from the age of two and a half replaces the free activity of the play group for the under‐fives. But parents are constantly exhorted to evoke response from their baby even earlier by dangling brightly coloured objects over his cot, filling his environment with gay pictures and selecting educational toys.

The Rational Design of Toys

ABSTRACTA procedure for the rational design of educational toys is described. It consists, in part, of a checklist which may be used to evaluate a toy design and to suggest specific improvements. Justification for the items in the checklist is provided in terms of research findings in the area of originality training, curiosity motivation, and so on. The use of the checklist is demonstrated by applying it to a number of traditional and novel toy designs.

The Time Has Come

THOSE of my age and generation will recognize the source from which the title of this talk has been plagiarized, but for those of later decades, born when mothers held a bottle or diaper in one hand and a book on child psychology in the other, after the inception of Home and School or Parent and Teacher Associations, and following the development of educational toys and books for children, it might be pointed out that the title is a part of the elocutionary effort of Tweedeldee in “Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There.” Six of the lines read:‘The time has come’, the Walrus said,‘To talk of many things:Of shoes—and ships—and sealing wax—Of cabbages—and kings—And why the sea is boiling hot—And whether pigs have wings’“The time has come to talk of many things” concerning Universities—teaching, research, philosophy, organization, …

Educational Toys

Educational Toys

Book Review: Educational Toys

Book Review: Educational Toys