Masterʼ s Thesis

Academic Year 2012

Summary「A study on physiological eﬀects of the children by the production
experience of the small space.
Summary
In recent years, a transition of the urban environment is notable. Also, playing environments
for children in Japan have been changing. Children plays outside in a group are decreasing,
because they can play by oneself without the playing space and playmates by the appearancesof the television and the electronic games. Also, relationships with others has become diluted inchildrenʼ s life field by a change of our lifestyle due to urbanization, and children could notensure the time and place for play by many lessons apart from school hours and enhancing
safety around them. On the other hand, the importance of play has been pointed out, because
the experiences of play in childhood include the use of social skills to interact with each otherin various situations. Even among them, Play in small space of only children attached their own
meaning such as the hidden and secret base are mentioned the possibility to become a placethat constructs of only theirs society and stimulates the emotion of them.
Also, Formative Play program in primary school education is given importance, because it isexpect that develop the ability to live by cultivating an attitude concerning the life and social on
theirs own initiative and the basic ability to express, judgment, and thinking.Formative play has
been evaluated; there are psychological effects by the interaction of three elements “Play”“Communication” “Accomplishment” in Collaborative modeling activities.
However,it is important
not only formative play but also producing their own small space and playing there in order tostimulate the psychological effects of spatial. It is considered to be enhanced “Play” and“Communication” by producing the small space for themselves and use it. Therefore, the purposeof this study to produce a tool that can produce cooperatively in small space and verify theevaluation of the psychological effects (Play, Communication, Accomplishment) throughpractical production experience of small place with children.
First of all, we defined on the small space of children and described its features. Next, wedescribed the characteristics of formative play, based on its features, we made a production of"House of Wakka" tools that can be created cooperatively in their own small space.
Next,we performed practical production experience of the small space intended for fourth grade
children. Through experience production, we clarified the psychological effects of production
experience of the small space by an analysis words and actions and scenes of children at eachstage of Production, Using, Tidying up.In addition, we experimented three patterns such as
parents and children, only children and only children in numbers by taking into account theenvironmental conditions surrounding the children because there are various subject for
production cooperatively. And, we clarify the effect of production experience small space by
subtracting other effects of each environmental factor throughout the experiment.
Thus, in this study, we have demonstrated that production experience of the small space has
physiological effects of the children, and this field trial will be able to be utilized as a referencein the studying of physiological effects of the children by the production experience of the smallspace.
Key words
１:small space ２:formative play ３:production experience ４:child ５:physiological eﬀect
Keio University Graduate School of Media and GovernanceToshiko Shibuya

A study on physiological eﬀects of the children by the production experience of the small space.

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