THE HISTORICAL RETROSPECTIVE OF THE EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF TOYS AS A SOCIOCULTURAL PHENOMENON IN DOMESTIC STUDIES

Abstract

The article reflects the particular interpretation of toys, in particular the doll, as a sociocultural phenomenon in modern cultural and psychological-pedagogical researches. Aesthetic and pedagogical potential of chil- dren’s toys and, in particular, dolls, its influence on creation of comfortable conditions of the child’s socializa- tion in the adult world are considered. A brief review of the dolls’ history of creation and functioning in society is given in the article. The toys’ role in the cultural development of the Ukrainians and the influence on the formation of a child’s personality in the historical retrospective is under analysis. The attention of researchers focused on the period from the end of XIX century, when there appeared ethnographic researches of the local cultural, public figures, writers, educators, in which a separate subject of study was a child’s toy as an integral aspect of the Ukrainian child’s life.