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Fovet, Frederic – Emotional & Behavioural Difficulties, 2009
This study investigates the use made of humour by teachers during classroom interventions with adolescent students with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties (SEBD). Literature mentions the use of humour as a key tool in successful classroom interventions with students with SEBD and yet there is little quantified research on this topic.…
Descriptors: Inclusive Schools, Disabilities, Classroom Techniques, Humor
Hobday-Kusch, Jody; McVittie, Janet – Canadian Journal of Education, 2002
Using a post-structural, interpretive perspective, we studied children's humour in a grade-1 and -2 classroom. In this article, we report our observations of two boys who took on the role of "class clown." The boys used humour to negotiate power, which we defined as participation in discourse, taking on the role of class clowns and…
Descriptors: Males, Grade 1, Grade 2, Humor