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Hui Wang; Min Zhang; Jian Zhu – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2025
Drawing on social exchange theory and social information processing theory, this study constructs a moderated chain mediation model to test the impact of leader affiliative humor on employees' bootleg innovation. Based on a sample of 264 employees from Chinese companies, this study used SPSS 26.0 and MPLUS 8.3 to examine the hypotheses. Empirical…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Humor, Employees, Innovation
Hüseyin Kotaman; Mustafa Aslan – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
The purpose of this study is to investigate the impact of humour, teaching, gender, age, birth order, siblings, parents' level of education and income on kindergarteners' costly sharing behaviours. The participants consist of 106 kindergarteners enrolled in three public kindergartens in Sanliurfa. The participants interacted with two assistants,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Kindergarten, Young Children, Sharing Behavior
Hongxia Li; Xing Chen; Xiya Chen; Changqun Shan – Educational Psychology, 2024
Online learning burnout poses a paramount concern due to its detrimental influence on students' academic cognitive learning and mental health. Aiming to explore the association between teacher humour (content-related and content-unrelated) and online learning burnout, this study surveyed 585 college students enrolled in various online courses. The…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Burnout, Humor, Teaching Methods
James A. Newman; Subhan Mahmood; James L. Rumbold – Sport, Education and Society, 2025
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the concepts of bullying and banter within both sport research and media reporting. However, at present, research has not explored reports of bullying and banter within the UK sport media This is a potential omission, as the media may provide important conceptual information about bullying…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, News Media, News Reporting, Bullying
Li-Chih Wang; Sau Mei Stephanie Chu; Ji-Kang Chen – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 2024
This study aims to bridge the research gap in the humour comprehension problems of individuals with dyslexia in Chinese culture. We conducted a nonexperimental study to examine the differences between Chinese adolescents with and without dyslexia in visual humour comprehension as well as the group differences in the correlation of visual humour…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humor, Dyslexia, Students with Disabilities
Moriah Omer-Attali; Adam Lefstein; Hadar Netz – Language and Education, 2025
While once forbidden in classrooms, laughter is increasingly encouraged as contributing to a positive learning environment. However, analyses of laughter in conversation show that laughter performs multiple social functions, some of which are not necessarily positive. Applying this lens, this study investigates the interactional functions of…
Descriptors: Humor, Elementary School Students, Student Behavior, Behavior Standards
Orhan Gazi Yildirim; Nezahat Hamiden Karaca; Fatma Betül Senol – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2024
Self concept is an experiential formation gained as a result of certain experiences. The concept of self-concept has an interesting intersection with the psychological field of humour. The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between the humor styles and self-perceptions of primary school 4th grade students and to conduct the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Humor, Elementary School Students
Zhou Tianli; Nor Shahila Mansor; Guoqiang Liu; Peng Junhua – SAGE Open, 2024
In recent times, the number of studies examining the use of humor in teaching English as a second language (ESL) in Asian countries has increased as researchers have acknowledged the positive effects that humor has on language teaching. This study presents a systematic review focused on the use of humor in ESL teaching within Asian countries. Its…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
Sophie Chiew; Eve Mayes; Netta Maiava; Dani Villafaña; Natasha Abhayawickrama – Global Studies of Childhood, 2024
Young people involved in climate justice activism engage in a range of tactics across entangled 'online' and 'offline' spaces. This article explores the affordances and ambivalences of humour in digital modes of contention for young people (aged 12-30) involved in climate justice activism. Four of the authors are 19-22 years old and involved in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Climate, Activism
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
Lars Dahl Pedersen – Journal of Dance Education, 2025
Research on creative dance education has indicated that students can take risks and improvise when the teacher relinquishes control through an open and explorative approach. I add to the discussion by exploring the unexpected and spontaneous episodes when teaching dance improvisation in settings outside dance education. Based on empirical material…
Descriptors: Creativity, Dance Education, Creative Activities, Dance
Ning Zhu; Ruth Filik – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
We investigated the effect of culture and social status on sarcasm interpretation. Two hundred U.K. participants and 200 Chinese participants read scenarios in which the final comment could be either literal or sarcastic criticism and the speaker had equal, higher, or lower social status compared to the recipient. Comments were rated on degree of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Influences, Social Status, Negative Attitudes
Weili Zhao – Gender and Education, 2024
In this paper, I revisit a spontaneous "laughter" event in a college classroom in China to decolonize in three steps my/our otherwise naturalized modernity/coloniality assumptions about teaching/teachers, learning/learners, gender, objects, and classroom space toward a Daoist affective ecological imaginary. First, I invoke postcritical…
Descriptors: Humor, Feminism, Power Structure, Philosophy
Jean-Marc Dewaele; Kazuya Saito; Florentina Halimi – Language Teaching Research, 2025
The current study investigates how foreign language enjoyment (FLE), foreign language classroom anxiety (FLCA) and attitude/motivation (AM) of 360 learners of English, German, French and Spanish in a Kuwaiti university was shaped over the course of one semester by three teacher behaviours: frequency of using the foreign language (FL) in class,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, Anxiety, English (Second Language)
Robert J. Booth; Ed Cope; Daniel J. A. Rhind – Sport, Education and Society, 2024
This study investigates how bullying and banter are conceptualised and rationalised by those in male adolescent community football. The authors employ a social constructivist, interpretative phenomenological analysis approach using qualitative, semi-structured interviews. These methods explore the meanings behind the perceptions and experiences of…
Descriptors: Bullying, Humor, Verbal Communication, Males
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