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초록

According to the study conducted and reported the“ Domestic Infants and Children Exposed to Private Education Programs ”in 2016 by the Korean Institute of Child Care and Education, approximately 35% of infants and children of less than 2 years of age were found taking private education programs for learning Korean or English language as well as cultivating creative activities for artistic presentation. Infants are growing by spontaneous plays rather than by enforced education. In this respect, the playthings resulted from the comprehensive design complying with the developmental process of infants affects the behaviors of infants in play greatly. This study intends for the development of a design of mouse-shaped Doljabi toy helping comprehensive development of the 4 domains (of physical, socio-emotional, cognitive, and linguistic ones) of infants of around 1 year old. For this purpose, this study was organized to follow the stages of the bibliographic examination, investigations on current realities, focus group interview with experts, modification for two pilot designs, and validation thereof. Firstly, the comprehensive development of infants and the playthings for infants will be explored through bibliographic examinations. And then, the comparative investigations on domestic and overseas playthings particularly designed to help the comprehensive development of infants will be included in the survey designed to identify current realities thereof. Secondly, the 4 daycare experts currently working in domestic nurseries will be joining to the‘ Focus Group Interview ’to support the preparation and validation of the pilot designs of playthings through observations on the pilot usage of playthings by infants. Finally, the additional 4 design experts will also be invited to the focus group interviews with the 4 experts of daycare to finalize the design of mouse-shaped plaything for infants. The use of developed plaything by infants will also be re-observed to determine the final effectiveness of the design of plaything. As a result, the design of plaything developed in this study was found systematically and associated with the physical, socio-emotional, cognitive, and linguistic development of infants integratively. This study would be significant in that the design of plaything that could help the integrated development of infants of around 1 year old was developed according to‘ The 3rd Standard Curriculum for Daycare Nurseries ’.

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