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Ahn, So-Yeon – Language Awareness, 2016
The present study explores Korean students' demonstration of language awareness through their engagement in language play. Grounded in the understanding of the relationship between language play and an "engagement with language" (EWL) perspective, this ethnographic and discourse analytic study investigates how Korean students aged 11-15…
Descriptors: Metalinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Ethnography, English (Second Language)
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Chiang, Yi-Chen; Lee, Chun-Yang; Wang, Hong-Huei – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2016
Background: To adapt to dramatic changes from physical growth, physical development and the increasing demand of significant others, humor has been found to be an effective coping strategy. However, previous studies have found that adolescents start to express their humor styles with aggressive components which causes negative consequences, such…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Adolescents, Coping, Physical Development
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Sockman, Beth Rajan; Sutton, Rhonda; Herrmann, Michele – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2016
This study determined the usefulness of digital comic creation with 77 graduate students in a teacher technology course. Students completed an assigned reading and created digital comics that addressed technology integration concerns in the schools and society. Using practical action research, 77 student-created comics were analyzed. The findings…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Technology Integration, Cartoons, Electronic Publishing
Özeke, Vildan; Akçapina, Gökhan – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
There are many computer games, learning environments, online tutoring systems or computerized tools which keeps the track of the user while learning or engaging in the activities. This paper presents results from an exploratory study and aims to group students regarding their behavior data while solving the Einstein's riddle. 45 undergraduate…
Descriptors: Puzzles, Educational Games, Humor, Foreign Countries
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Alm, Antonie – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This paper discusses the animated web series "Lifeswap" as an example for "amateur online interculturism" and investigates its potential for intercultural language education. Drawing on Dervin's (2015) discussion on the "amateur interculturist", I suggest that online publications of personal encounters of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness, Intervention, Teaching Methods
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Fulmer, Ellie Fitts; Makepeace, Nia Nunn – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2015
While humor has long been documented as a useful teaching tool, it is almost entirely untheorized in terms of its potential for multicultural education. Specifically, the learning opportunities that racial comedic media offer in multicultural and anti-racist coursework is a particularly under-studied area, while research in this vein has great…
Descriptors: Multicultural Education, Comedy, Teaching Methods, Race
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Rieger, Alicja; McGrail, Ewa – Kappa Delta Pi Record, 2015
Given the power of children's literature to communicate authentic representations of disability and the potential of humor for nurturing social acceptance, teachers should know how to discuss this literature in the inclusive classroom. The authors analyze authentic children's literature with elements of humor and provide strategies in…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Childrens Literature, Humor, Inclusion
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Sharma, Bal Krishna – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2015
This study presents an analysis of a Nepali comedian's dialect stylization in a stand-up comedy show performed for the diasporic Nepali community in Bochum, Germany. The analysis shows that through creative deployment of diverse linguistic practices of Nepali speakers, the comedian, Manoj Gajurel, engages in important identity work both in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dialects, Language Usage, Language Styles
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Halkjelsvik, Torleif; Rise, Jostein – Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy, 2015
Aims: The use of fear appeals with disgusting graphical content is part of current practice in health campaigns. Previous studies have suggested both a detrimental and a beneficial effect of disgust in fear appeals on different types of outcome measures. We were interested in whether disgust in anti-smoking messages decreases or increases…
Descriptors: Fear, Smoking, Advertising, Outcome Measures
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Ramsay, Alison – Research in Drama Education, 2014
This article examines some of the performance outcomes from a practised-based research project that took place with adolescent girls attending an after-school drama club. Participants experimented with slapstick humour in a series of workshops, before presenting their own devised physical comedy performance for a live audience. Comic performances…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Drama, Theater Arts
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Lamoureux, Kevin – Gifted Education International, 2014
This article chronicles the creative life of Ken McCluskey, the Dean of Education at the University of Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada. He looks beyond the ivory tower and, indeed, reshapes the tower. Fluency, flexibility, originality, and elaboration are evident throughout the life and work of Dean McCluskey. He creates an innovative environment and…
Descriptors: Profiles, Foreign Countries, Creativity, Deans
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Greteman, Adam J. – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2014
In this article, the author looks to the work of Jacques Rancière to engage the possibilities in dissensus in queer theory in education. Fatigued of Foucault, bored with Butler, disdainful of Derrida and dumbfounded by Deleuze and Guattari, and just generally tired of feeling bullied into citing particular people and not others, the author…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Homosexuality, Educational Theories, Humor
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Basu, Sammy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
By virtue of his "Essays" Montaigne is rightly regarded not only as a radically modern philosopher but also as a transformative educational innovator. He confronted the extent to which pedantry and acculturation can justify cruelty by developing a conception of liberal arts education as the arts of liberation, and at the core of this…
Descriptors: Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Humor, Educational Innovation
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Stengel, Barbara S. – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
We humans laugh often and it is not always because something is funny. We laugh in the face of the pathetic or the powerless; sometimes we laugh at our own powerlessness or pathos. In short, we laugh at both the comical and the difficult. Here I am especially interested in the laughter that is sparked by what is difficult and how that…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Humor, Emotional Response, Psychological Patterns
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Resnik, Pia; Moskowitz, Sharona; Panicacci, Alex – Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning, 2021
When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, the education sector soon faced the unprecedented challenge of moving courses online within no time. The rapid implementation of emergency remote teaching (ERT) led to students and teachers alike being thrown into an emotional terra incognita. This paper sets out to explore if foreign language (LX) grit,…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), Scores
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