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Articles by tag "didactic toys":
2014, 3
p. 32–37
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Toys and play activities for children have received considerable attention since antiquity. The author notes that in today’s schools and kindergartens play acts as a means of acquiring new skills, forming useful skills. Psychologists and neuroscientists prove an important role of play in the mental development. The article discusses how play changes with children growth. The author emphasizes that toys should not be working copies of adult objects to sharpen useful skills of adult life. What a child receives through the play is much more important – understanding of the meaning of human activities and relationships between people. Children’s play should be varied to have socially approvable subject but not limited to the performance of certain actions with toys. In order a toy to serve as an instrument of mental development it is necessary to teach children to play with them.
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