Comparative Studies of Educational Toys (CSET) is an international journal that provides scholarly space for debate, analysis and exchange of ideas and for presenting data and research findings on the relationship between educational toys and children’s learning at home and at private and public care facilities. CSET will chart historical movement and development in the use of toys as a supplementary necessity for children’s education. Both at home and at children’s care facilities worldwide, toys are a visible and unavoidable part of childcare infrastructure that in themselves now constitute an important element in the pedagogy of early child-
CSET will facilitate empirical review and assessment of new (and old) toys by child psychologists, child care professionals, and schools when approached by toy manufacturers for that purpose.
hood education and socialization, hence, the toy industry's emergence as a billion dollar industry. CSET's goal is to encourage non-market affiliated research and discussion into issues surrounding the uses, benefit, designs, safety and changes to children’s educational toys as a neccessary supplement to industry publications. Toy industry research and opinions are, of course welcome, as are experiments, research and reports by parents, schools and day care centres. Professional reviews of new and old toys are also welcome. CSET will accommodate video, audio and film submissions.
Scholarship on the Assessment of Learning
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ISSN 1916 789X
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Educational and Avocational Disadvantage
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Comparative Studies of Educational Toys
http://www.spreadcorp.org/cset/index.html
ISSN 1916 7830
©2007-2010 Sustainable Programs for Reducing
Educational and Avocational Disadvantage
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Comparative Studies of Educational Toys