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Povell, Phyllis – Montessori Life: A Publication of the American Montessori Society, 2020
In the summer of 1950, teenagers Elvira Businelli and Delfina Tomassini embarked upon a teacher training course at the Italian university for foreigners, in Perugia, Italy--taught by Maria Montessori. Kn 2020, Elvira and Delfina, now in their 80s, spoke with Montessori Life in the interview presented in this article about their recollections of…
Descriptors: Montessori Method, Teacher Education Programs, Foreign Students, Teacher Attitudes
American Journal of Play, 2009
Bowen White is a physician. He founded the Department of Preventive and Stress Medicine at the Baptist Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1983 and later established the center's Department of Wellness and Health Promotion. White is also a clown who goes by the name of Dr. Jerko. For years he mixed these dual interests, skills, and egos…
Descriptors: Play, Wellness, Health Promotion, Physicians

Crabbs, Michael A.; And Others – Elementary School Guidance and Counseling, 1986
Records an interview with Joel Goodman, founder and director of the HUMOR Project at Saratoga Institute. Offers counselors suggestions for using humor as a tool in counseling situations. (ABB)
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Humor, Interviews, School Counseling

Fujoika, Janine Midori – Career Development Quarterly, 1991
Interview with Asian-American comedian provides insightful commentary about his career choice. Notes his belief that comedy stage is useful position to comment on stereotypes inherent to U.S. culture. Asserts that comedians must challenge audience to think about the joke not only as amusement, but to examine other implications involved. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Career Choice, Humor, Interviews

Leroux, Janice A. – Music Educators Journal, 1983
Peter Schickele, whose stage persona is P.D.Q. Bach, discusses such subjects as the musical influences on his childhood, humor, creativity, and what he wants to be when he grows up. (CS)
Descriptors: Creativity, Humor, Interviews, Music

Galda, Lee; Rapport, Rebecca – Journal of Children's Literature, 2000
Presents an interview with Dianne Monson, 1994 winner of the International Reading Association's Arbuthnot Award, a woman of many talents and enthusiasms, all of which are apparent in the way she approaches both teaching and children's books. Discusses her career as a reader, a critic, and a teacher of children's literature. (SG)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Elementary Education, Humor, Interviews

Langer, Howard J. – Social Education, 1984
In this interview Art Buchwald, whose column of political humor now appears in 550 newspapers around the world, talks about his life and career, his sources of ideas, whether there is a place for humor in the school curriculum, and the state of American humor today. (RM)
Descriptors: Curriculum, Elementary Secondary Education, Humor, Interviews

Einhorn, Lois J. – Communication Quarterly, 1988
Presents personal interviews with Dr. William Lee Miller, a former speechwriter for Adlai Stevenson's 1956 campaign for President; Dr. Robert Turner, a former speechwriter for presidents Harry Truman and John Kennedy; and Mrs. Dorothy Collins, a speechwriter for several key administrators at a major midwestern university. (JK)
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Humor, Interpersonal Communication, Interviews

Sparks, Lisa; Travis, Shirley S.; Thompson, Sharlene R. – Health & Social Work, 2005
The authors' previous work with long-term family caregivers demonstrated the importance of conversational cues, the reliance on humor to convey sensitive information, and the ways in which the interviewer can follow up, with appropriate probes and nonverbal encouragement, to gain necessary insight into the caregiver situation. This article offers…
Descriptors: Patients, Cues, Social Work, Human Services
Carpenter, Angelica Shirley – School Library Journal, 2006
This article presents an interview with Jacqueline Wilson, a popular British author of children's books. Wilson has published 86 books for children and young adults with more than 20 million copies sold in the U.K. alone. Wilson's fans--mostly seven- to 14-year-old girls--love her gripping plots about dysfunctional families, homelessness, and…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Homeless People, Family Violence, Childrens Literature

Briscoe, Lori; Collins, Erica S.; Deal, Amanda; Hancock, Ron; McGraw, Kristyn – Appalachian Journal, 2000
Loyal Jones talks about his role in the Council of the Southern Mountains, the controversy that led to its demise, founding the Appalachian Center at Berea College (Kentucky), and elitist attitudes of liberal arts colleges that hinder sincere efforts to help Appalachian people. He discusses humor as a way of simultaneously putting people on and…
Descriptors: Activism, Appalachian Studies, College Faculty, Educational History