Simone:

Here's what I found in RG:

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=sources%20of%20information%20on%20the%20history%20before%2020th%20century%20of%20games%20and%20learning&previous=researcher

Best regards,

Debra

Simone:

Here's what I found in RG:

https://www.researchgate.net/search.Search.html?type=publication&query=sources%20of%20information%20on%20the%20history%20before%2020th%20century%20of%20games%20and%20learning&previous=researcher

Best regards,

Debra

Before the turn of the 19th century, experimental methods in education were brand new phenomena. Herbart invoked promoting the scientific study of education, based on observational methods, and developed mathematical psychology

http://www.wou.edu/~girodm/611/Berliner_100years.pdf

No se si aun sirva la información, pero en el libro "El desarrollo de los procesos psicológicos superiores" (Vygotski, 2000), el capítulo 7 habla del papel del juego en el desarrollo del niño, tema que atraviesa la concepción de aprendizaje a la que te refieres...    

For hands on learning and acquisition of new "old" games, try the museum gift stores for 200 years ago for US immigrant culture, they sell hoops/sticks, ninepins etc.  On the other hand, pebbles for Mancala and "Jacks" (old name depends on the culture/language base), are available if you look in the right place outside.  Depending on how old is old, most of the games were made with materials that were easily accessible and take minimal skill to assemble and were used to teach the children the skills needed to survive, so dolls (for baby care and learning to sew) and bows/arrows, boomerangs, etc.  would be something that the children might have.  On the third hand, what culture and era are you examining?  For Appalachia- the Foxfire book of Toys and Games (1985)- edited by Linda Page and Hilton Smith, EP Dutton, publisher ISBN:0-525-48181-8. 

On games in general, you must read Homo Ludens, by Huizinga.

I recommend the following TED talk from 2010 in which game designer Jane McGonigal PhD mentions i.e. an interesting story from around 2500 years ago how one of the ancient countries was saved thanks to playing a game.

Good luck in your research.

Kind regards,

Artur

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE1DuBesGYM&feature=youtu.be&t=734

Thank you for all your comments and links. I am looking at all cultures, but particularly searching for pre-historic games or even those up to the late 1800s. One source I found was http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/Archives/index.htm#Piccione which links to articles on games, if anyone is interested. I am trying to focus on those with a learning component. For example, Gyan chauper which was used for teaching spiritual lessons. 

Try "string figures" as a search term- there is a lot of information.  The string figures were used to tell stories to pass wisdom from one age to the next.  Many cultures world wide used the circular loop of string to form different representations from the time that a loop of something was invented. The intricacies vary from culture to culture. In the US- "Cat's Cradle" is probably the most well known with "Jacob's ladder" following that as far as named figures go.  There is an International Association of String figures that is trying to preserve the history for future generations.