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John T. Hackworth – Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 2024
The purpose of this article is to show that health and physical education (HPE) teachers who implement humor in the classroom intentionally create a more relaxed classroom environment, build stronger relationships with students, and engage students in the learning process. Humor used as an instructional strategy eases teacher stress and engages…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Physical Education Teachers, Teaching Methods, Humor
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Spörk, Angelo; Martinuzzi, André; Findler, Florian; Vogel-Pöschl, Heike – Environmental Education Research, 2023
Humor has received increasing attention in environmental educational research in recent years as it can have a variety of positive effects on learning atmosphere, outcomes, and student-educator relationships. In most cases, humor is used by educators while students act as consumers. However, this does not exploit the full potential of humor for…
Descriptors: Humor, Comedy, Scripts, Environmental Education
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Baker, James P.; Clark-Gordon, Cathlin V.; Myers, Scott A. – Communication Education, 2019
Guided by emotional response theory, this study examined how students' emotional responses mediated the relationship between their instructors' dramatic teaching behaviors (i.e., humor, self-disclosure, narrative) and their approach-avoidance behaviors (i.e., oral in-class participation, out-of-class communication, classroom citizenship…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Teacher Behavior, Teaching Methods, Humor
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Vasudevan, Lalitha – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2015
In this article, I explore laughter as a form of multimodal play in which adolescents' engage across contexts and in various configurations. With a few recent exceptions, a focus on unscripted play is largely missing from ongoing research and discussion about the education of adolescents. Whereas the space to play has been vitally important to the…
Descriptors: Humor, Adolescents, Play, Educational Technology
Sammons, Pam; Kington, Alison; Lindorff-Vijayendran, Ariel; Ortega, Lorena – CfBT Education Trust, 2014
This study investigates the notion of "inspiring" teaching. The research was commissioned by CfBT as part of a collaborative professional development initiative involving its schools. It arose from headteachers' suggestions that schools nominate a number of "inspiring" teachers so that their practice could be studied and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Observation, Interviews
Selleck, Denise Faith – 1991
This study examines the use of teacher and student humor in the English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) classroom. A summary and synthesis of previous research on theories of humor, humor and its use in society, and applications of humor revealed its importance as an object of study. An analysis of audiotaped transcripts of samples of ESL classes…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, English (Second Language), Humor, Language Research
McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2005
These Proceedings document an educational research forum held at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) on December 7, 2005. Table of contents and 26 research studies of high school teaching are included. Studies include: (1) Mathematical Reasoning in Multiple Representations: Connections and Confidence (Justin Allman); (2) The…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Research, Mathematical Logic, Problem Based Learning