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Special Functions of toys

The properties of particular kinds of toys, their realism, or structured quality, their mechanical complexity, and their relationship to household or adventurous functions, are all issues that may bear on thier value for imaginative play. A very simple toy or object can simulate a lengthy imaginative play.



Specific toys are purchased for their educational values.

Kurt Lewin(1954) and more recently to Brofenbrenner(1979) conceptualises the environment and toys more specifically in transaction terms. By transaction it is meant the ways in which children and toys influence each other.

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