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Download full textNasiri, Fuzhan; Mafakheri, Fereshteh – Higher Education Studies, 2015
This article will review the issues surrounding the use of humor as an informal teaching method in higher education lecturing. The impact and usefulness of humor, from both a teacher's and a student's perspective, will be investigated. The aim is to classify the challenges and limitations of using humor in classrooms and to investigate and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Faculty, College Students, Teacher Attitudes
Quinlan, Andrea; Fogel, Curtis A. – Higher Education Studies, 2014
In 1970, education theorist Paulo Freire (1970) sharply critiqued dominant pedagogy--or what he called the banking model of education--for stripping students of their agency. In the banking model, he wrote, instructors are empowered as narrating subjects as students who become alienated as passive listening objects. In the decades since, research…
Descriptors: Large Group Instruction, Active Learning, Class Size, Teaching Load
