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Sahin, Ahmet – SAGE Open, 2021
This study investigated teachers' use of humor in school settings. Eleven lower secondary school teachers from different branches volunteered in this qualitative study. I collected data through individual, face-to-face interviews and used content and descriptive analysis methods for data analysis. In conclusion, the participants mostly said that…
Descriptors: Humor, Teacher Attitudes, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Gach, Nataliia – Issues in Educational Research, 2020
This research focuses on revealing the role of culture of education in shaping students' and teachers' attitudes to the learning process, which is largely determined by the political and social context in which it takes place. This exploration of the cultural nature of autonomy of the Ukrainian university students majoring in translation from…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Teacher Attitudes, Student Attitudes, Political Influences
Gözpinar, Halis – Online Submission, 2014
In order to see English Teachers' attitudes towards learning and teaching proverbs, descriptive methods and quantitative approaches were used, and a questionnaire was answered by 84 English Teachers from grades 9 through 12 in two different cities Ordu, Turkey and Akhaltsikhe, Georgia.
Descriptors: Proverbs, English Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods
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Garcia, Michael B.; Geiser, Lynne; McCawley, Corrine; Nilsen, Alleen Pace; Wolterbeek, Elle – English Journal, 2007
Four doctoral students and their professor contemplate the value of play in their high school and college classrooms. They discuss their experiences teaching children's books, student illustrations, and excerpts from magazines and newspapers that convey the intricacies of the English language through homonyms, homophones, homographs, and polysemy.…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Play, Creativity
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Bogad, L. M. – Research in Drama Education, 2007
This article explores the use of ironic performance in education, particularly around issues of human rights. I examine my own efforts to engage audiences with the history of domestic espionage and sabotage by the intelligence agencies of the United States. This is a history well known to some marginalized counterpublics (see Fraser, 1997), but…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Figurative Language, Humor, Audiences