木育玩具による遊びと子どもの発達の対応分析

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‘MOKUIKU’ is an educational activity to aim to deepen the experience with wood from infancy that can lead to a richer life, a better society, and an awareness for importance of the creation of new forests. ‘MOKUIKU-Toys’ is educational toys which have effect of encourage intellectual growth for young children. In our previous research of ‘Classification of Wooden Toys and Survey Analysis of the Effects’, we were able to verify the toys that were suitable for the development of children’s intelligence and physical ability. In addition, the relation between growth stage of children and the use of educational wooden toys was clarified in this research. Using a method of classifying 154 wooden toys for children from 0 years old to 3 years old in five categories, the relation between age group and play style was clarified using multivariate analysis. After that, using text mining analysis, we extracted useful information such as frequency of appearance of words in sentences, correlation of co-occurrence, appearance tendency. Finally, we created ‘Age correspondence table of effective use for children’s growth with MOKUIKU-Toys’. Using these results, we hope to create new production guidelines for MOKUIKU-Toys for preschool children.