木育玩具の分類とその教育効果の調査分析

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‘MOKUIKU’ is an educational activity for children and adults to deepen their understanding and familiarity of the culture of wood through contact with wood products and learn the significance of wood and its uses. In recent years, wooden toys have been seen as promoting active use of forest resources and wood growth. In this research, classification and analysis of existing ‘MOKUIKU’ toys were carried out to clarify the effect of physical ability on children's education and development. Based on the results, we aim to create evaluation guidelines for ‘MOKUIKU’ toys for preschool children and to create production guidelines. Using a method of classifying 164 ‘MOKUIKU’ toys from the past 10 years (NPO Japan Good Toy Committee approved) into 14 different kinds of play styles, 58 toys were extracted using multivariate analysis. After that, as a result of further analysis using factor analysis and multivariate analysis, we were able to verify the toys suitable for the development of children's intelligence and physical ability, the ease of understanding how to play, and purchasing factors.