Educational toys - Educational toys

Japanese: 教育玩具 - きょういくがんぐ
Educational toys - Educational toys

...From around the 18th century, a trend to recognize children's human rights gradually emerged, and toys were given educational significance. F. Froebel of Germany called the toys he invented "Gabe (gifts)," and M. Montessori of Italy described the toys he developed as "materia (teaching tools)." In Japan, the term "educational toys" was also coined in the mid-Meiji period. These terms were likely created to erase the non-educational image of the original words after toys began to have educational meanings. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "educational toys" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…18世紀ころから,子どもの人権を認める風潮がしだいに生まれ,玩具の教育的意義づけがされる中で,ドイツのF.フレーベルは自らの考案した玩具を〈ガーベGabe(恩物)〉と呼んだり,イタリアのM.モンテッソリはやはり自ら開発した玩具を〈マテリアmateria(教具)〉と表現したりした。日本でも,明治中期に〈教育玩具〉という言葉が生まれている。これらは,教育的な意図が玩具にもたれるようになってから,それぞれもとの言葉の非教育的なイメージをぬぐうために生み出されたのであろう。…

※「教育玩具」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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