Educational psychologist of the Center for Psychological and Pedagogical Expertise of Games and Toys of the Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University
Alexandra L. Romanova
2009, 1
p. 24-29
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Along with technological progress and social changes come new technologies and new values. The author shows how a toy, while a mean of transmission of culture values, ethical and aesthetical norms from older generation to the youth, reflects not only shifts in technology, but also changes in socio-cultural context. This article compares modern toys and those manufactured in former Soviet Union.