Toys and Communication [Hardcover]

There are few scholarly books about toys, and even fewer that consider toys within the context of culture and communication. Toys and Communication is an innovative collection that effectively showcases work by specialists who have sought to examine toys throughout history and in many cultures, including 1930s Europe, Morocco, India, Spanish art of the 16th-19th centuries. Psychologists stress the importance of the role of toys and play in childrens language development and intellectual skills, and this book demonstrates the recurrent theme of the transmission of cultural norms through the portrayal, presentation and use of toys. The text establishes the role of toy and play park design in eliciting particular forms of play, as well as stressing the childs use of toys to become more adult. It will be beneficial for courses in education, developmental psychology, communications, media studies, and toy design.1. Toys and communication: An introduction;?Jeffrey Goldstein and Luisa Magalh?es.- 2. The end of play and the fate of digital play media:?A historical perspective on the marketing of play culture; Stephen Kline.-?3. Toys: Between rhetoric of education and rhetoric of fun;?Gilles Broug?re.-?4. ?A toy semiotic, revisited;?David Myers.- ?5. Age differences in the use of toys as communication tools;?Amanda Gummer.-?6. LMNOBeasts: Using typographically inspired toys to aid development of language and communication skills in early childhood;?Todd Maggio, Kerri Phillips, Christina Madix.- ?7. Images of toys in Spanish painting (16th-19th centuries): Iconographic Languages;?Oriol Vaz and Michel Manson.-?8. Communication in Moroccan Childrens Toys and Play;?Jean-Pierre Rossie.-?9. Dincs as Worldviews: Things that Communicate a Mind;?Koumudi Patil.-?10. ?Holocaust war games: Playing with genocide;?Suzanne Seriff.-?11. ?Working class childrens toys in times of war and famine. Play, work and the agency of children in Piraeus neighborhoods during the German Occupationl³¹