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Chowdhury, Faieza – International Journal of Higher Education, 2022
The word humor can be defined as something which is perceived to be funny, comical, or amusing. However, in the case of humor perception plays a key role. This is mainly because what is regarded as humorous by one person may not be funny to another person. Hence, humor like beauty lies in the eyes (ears) of the beholder. The potential of humor as…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Student Attitudes, College Students
Caitlin E. Smith Sockbeson; Leigh R. Hartman; John C. Shaw – Management Teaching Review, 2024
Popular culture references have demonstrated usefulness as a pedagogical tool as they enhance student engagement and information retention. Use of the American version of the hit mockumentary TV series "The Office" has demonstrated pedagogical effectiveness in management, organizational behavior, and human resources courses. The show…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Television, Office Management, Office Occupations Education
Yusuf Akin; Neslihan Usta; Ayjennet Allaberdiyeva – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2025
This research aims to investigate the effect of instruction supported by mathematical internet memes on 8th-grade students' mathematics anxiety and motivation. The research consisted of a pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design conducted for two weeks. The research sample consists of 8th-grade students who study in a state school in Turkey.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Grade 8, Internet
Mitch Ingram – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
In this article I examine the perceptions of third grade minoritized emergent bilinguals (Spanish/English) in a US classroom as they articulate how family members serve as a source of jocularity. By taking a sociocultural perspective on humor as a resource, I seek to render visible the relational and linguistic connections between these students…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Latin Americans, Grade 3, Family Relationship
Benoit, Gregory; Salopek, Gábor – Journal of Urban Mathematics Education, 2023
Mathematical spaces extend far beyond the classroom and physical environments into virtual spaces. Today's students have more to consider than just their face-to-face experiences with mathematics inside or outside the classroom; they have the online perspectives of others to consider as well. To gain critical insight, we conducted this research…
Descriptors: Humor, Visual Aids, Social Media, Mathematics Education
Kaygan, Pinar – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2023
This article aims to expand our knowledge on interdisciplinary design education by focusing on team development, which has remained a less explored aspect of interdisciplinary collaboration so far. An interdisciplinary design studio course, Collaborative Design, for food engineering and industrial design students in higher education provides the…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Design, Food, Engineering Education
Carroll-Monteil, Emma – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Recently there has been an increase in scientists, educators, and activists moving into comedy to tell the climate story. Could using humour as an educational method encourage a greater response to the climate crisis? The present research addresses this question by exploring the impact that an environmental-based comedy show had on various…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Humor, Environmental Education
Siriprapa Srithep; Patharaorn Patharakorn – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
Through the lens of conversational analysis (CA), humor or funniness is not an inherent property of a message, nor an internal state of any social action, but as something interactionally achieved (Glenn, 2003). Teachers are often encouraged to utilize humor to reduce anxiety, lower affective filters, and make language more "memorable"…
Descriptors: College Students, English Language Learners, Humor, Role Playing
Kayali, Nurda Karadeniz; Altuntas, Asli – Shanlax International Journal of Education, 2021
Teaching vocabulary is a big challenge for teachers, and also a huge difficulty for students is to remember the vocabulary items. The main purpose of this study is to create an enjoyable learning and teaching environment to help students revise certain vocabulary items and make students have fun by being creative. In that, memes are trendy…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Humor, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
Hong Zhu; Siqi Hu; Zhizai Dai – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The impact of aggressive humor on workplace dynamics has been extensively examined; however, its implications for university students remain underexplored. Drawing on frustration--aggression theory, this study aims to uncover the consequences of peer-aggressive humor and its relationship with cyberbullying behavior. We employed a 2 (peer…
Descriptors: Bullying, Peer Relationship, Humor, Aggression
Kim, Sol – English Teaching, 2021
The use of humor has been a controversial research topic in language classrooms. Humor is pervasive; however, the functions of humor in primary English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) classrooms is under-investigated. To analyze the distinct features of humor, this study explores the specific functions of humor in primary English teaching classrooms…
Descriptors: Humor, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
Stojanovic, Maja; Robinson, Petra Alaine – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to present the experiences, beliefs and perceptions of international faculty at a Research 1 institution in the Southern US regarding the perceived differences between their and their students' and colleagues' cultures and first languages. Design/methodology/approach: Face-to-face interviews were conducted with four…
Descriptors: Foreign Nationals, College Faculty, Intercultural Communication, Foreign Countries
Gonulal, Talip – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Intelligent personal assistants (IPAs), which are voice-activated agents enabling human--computer interaction, have recently been reported to be pedagogically useful agents in language learning. IPAs use various forms of humor to better communicate with users and to compensate for any performance limitations. In order to understand the IPAs' sense…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Fki, Najla – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2021
This study examines lecturers' and learners' perceptions on humor use in Tunisian tertiary classrooms, focusing specifically on the English major. The ultimate aim is to explore the types and frequency of humor use on the one hand and whether teachers regard humor in the same light as their students on the other. To this purpose, a mixed-methods…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Humor
Arantes do Amaral, João Alberto; Fregni, Felipe – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2021
This case study presents our findings regarding a Project-Based Learning Course, where we applied neuroscience concepts to make the learning experience more effective. The course, which followed a combination of project-based learning and flipped classroom approaches, was delivered during the first semester of 2020, to 20 graduate students of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Neurosciences, Teaching Methods, Student Projects
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