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Direct linkPenelope Wardman, Natasha – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2021
In a global context where children are increasingly exposed to hostile humour in cartoons like Adventure Time and Spongebob Squarepants, it is not surprising that we see this play out in school settings. More concerning, however, is how teachers can misuse their position of power to wield such forms of humour against students who dare to question…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Humor, Classroom Environment, Power Structure
Download full textWortley, Amy; Dotson, Elizabeth – Journal of Instructional Research, 2016
This paper examines the use of instructional humor in higher education settings and makes connections between the levels of student achievement in academics and the influence of appropriate instructional humor. The work of prominent researchers such as Wanzer, Frymier, and Irwin (2010), and Segrist & Hupp (2015), who postulate that…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Learner Engagement, College Students
Frymier, Ann Bainbridge; Wanzer, Melissa Bekelja; Wojtaszczyk, Ann M. – Communication Education, 2008
This study replicated and extended a preliminary typology of appropriate and inappropriate teacher humor and advanced three explanations for differences in interpretations of teacher humor. Students were more likely to view teacher humor as inappropriate when it was perceived as offensive and when it demeaned students as a group or individually.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Humor, Teacher Behavior, Verbal Communication
Mazer, Joseph P.; Murphy, Richard E.; Simonds, Cheri J. – Learning, Media and Technology, 2009
Research suggests that teachers who personalize their teaching through the use of humor, stories, enthusiasm, and self-disclosure are perceived by their students to be effective in explaining course content. This experimental study examined the effects of computer-mediated teacher self-disclosure on perceptions of teacher credibility. Participants…
Descriptors: Course Content, Credibility, Computer Mediated Communication, Self Disclosure (Individuals)
De Bruyn, Eddy H. – School Psychology International, 2004
The present study described the development of the Mentor Behaviour Rating Scale. In the Dutch secondary educational system, the mentor is a teacher responsible for individual students' academic and socio-emotional progress throughout the academic year. In order to assess the mentor behaviours conducive to pupils' acceptance levels of their…
Descriptors: Rating Scales, Mentors, Factor Analysis, Foreign Countries
Dickmeyer, Scott G. – 1993
A study analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the use of humor in the classroom. A longitudinal content analysis of presentational and classroom studies from 1941 to 1991 was conducted. Earlier studies were included if they had been cited five or more times within articles on humor in the classroom. Scholars have argued that humor: is a…
Descriptors: Audience Awareness, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Communication Research
