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Can I read Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America on EtoBox?
Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America by Amy Fumiko Ogata is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America about?
This study explores how a perception of children as imaginative and 'naturally' creative was constructed, disseminated, and consumed in the United States after World War II. It argues that educational toys, playgrounds, the smaller middle-class house, thousands of postwar schools, and children's museums, were designed to cultivate an ideal of imagination in a growing cohort of Baby Boom children.
Who reads Designing the creative child : playthings and places in midcentury America?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Amy Fumiko Ogata
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780816679607
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Gender Studies, Architecture, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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