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Cultural Influences on Toy Design
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Wang, Hui
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Year and Degree
2014, MDES, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Design.
Abstract
Traditional cultures are human treasures. It is necessary to preserve traditional cultures. Due to political, economic, cultural influences, and globalization, the loss of traditional culture becomes a severe problem and needs to be addressed. Education is an important means of spreading culture. For children, toys can be great educational tools as well as entertaining playthings. Through playing with appropriate educational toys, children learn a lot while having fun. Therefore, it is possible for children to learn traditional culture by playing with toys. This thesis focuses on finding how cultural influences can be integrated into toys. By integrating Han ethnic clothing with dolls as an example, I discuss the impact it can bring to children’s traditional cultural education and propose guidelines for cultural educational toy design.
Committee
Gerald Michaud, M.A. (Committee Chair)
Mikiko Hirayama, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Margaret Voelker-Ferrier, M.A. (Committee Member)
Pages
52 p.
Subject Headings
Design
Keywords
culture
;
Chinese
;
Han ethnic
;
clothing
;
toys
;
education
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Wang, H. (2014).
Cultural Influences on Toy Design
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810905
APA Style (7th edition)
Wang, Hui.
Cultural Influences on Toy Design.
2014. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810905.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Wang, Hui. "Cultural Influences on Toy Design." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1406810905
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Cultural Influences on Toy Design by Hui Wang is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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