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Bowes, Andrea; Katz, Albert – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The use of sarcasm sometimes lessens and sometimes enhances the negativity inherent in a sarcastic statement. Using a realistic conversational format, participants read either a sarcastic or a non-sarcastic aggressive argument between same-gendered interlocutors, and rated the pragmatic goals being expressed using a range of measures taken from…
Descriptors: Negative Attitudes, Figurative Language, Aggression, Humor
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Park, Jin Seo; Kim, Dae Hyun; Chung, Min Suk – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2011
Comics are powerful visual messages that convey immediate visceral meaning in ways that conventional texts often cannot. This article's authors created comic strips to teach anatomy more interestingly and effectively. Four-frame comic strips were conceptualized from a set of anatomy-related humorous stories gathered from the authors' collective…
Descriptors: Medical Schools, Cartoons, Anatomy, Foreign Countries
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Done, E.; Murphy, M.; Irving, M. – International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013
Despite growing consensus that dualistic thinking and hierarchically organised binary categorisations must be challenged if inclusion is to be achieved, advice on the design and implementation of non-dualistic pedagogies is less readily available. The role of teacher educators should therefore include: the modelling of possible actions that…
Descriptors: Teacher Educators, Teacher Role, Cooperation, Teacher Collaboration
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Conklin, Hilary G. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Recent efforts to define qualities of effective teaching practice have done little to capture the role of play, imagination, and creativity in classroom teaching. Drawing on theories of play and data from a two-year case study that included classroom observations, interviews, artifact collection, and surveys, the author examines the ways in which…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Middle School Teachers, Middle School Students, Teaching Methods
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
Chang, Chung-chien Karen – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Satire, as a mode, is not frequently employed in Chinese narratives. "Cat Country," or "Mao Cheng Ji," written by Lao She (pen name of Shu Qing Chun, 1898--1966) has come under much attack of its literary values. Whereas most critics have no doubt that this work sets out to satirize China through the portrayal of a society of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humor, Satire, Persuasive Discourse
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Johnson, Jason – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2010
This essay examines the deliberately humorous approaches undertaken in two recent higher education marketing endeavors: The American Council on Education's "Solutions for Our Future" campaign and Stanford's "Hail, Stanford, Hail" initiative. Three television commercials from each project are described and discussed in light of a view of comedy…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Recruitment, Comedy, Humor
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Lei, Simon A.; Cohen, Jillian L.; Russler, Kristen M. – Journal of Instructional Psychology, 2010
Some college instructors believe that the only way for students to take their education seriously is to be serious and solemn in the classroom. This often means creating a strict classroom environment built on discipline and hard work, perhaps with little or no room for discussion and laughter. However, the most effective instructors are those who…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Classroom Environment, Humor, Teaching Styles
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Mayo, Cris – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2010
The aim of this paper is to reconceive safety as a form of relation embedded in particular ways of speaking, listening and thinking. Moving away from safety as a relation that is achieved once and for all and afterwards remains safe avoids some of the disappointments of discourses of safety that seem to promise once a risk is taken or a gap is…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Safety, Emotional Response, Humor
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Zhukov, Katie – Psychology of Music, 2013
This study examined verbal and non-verbal teacher/student interpersonal interactions in higher education instrumental music lessons. Twenty-four lessons were videotaped and teacher/student behaviours were analysed using a researcher-designed instrument. The findings indicate predominance of student and teacher joke among the verbal behaviours with…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Music Education, Teacher Student Relationship, Nonverbal Communication
Clark, Marilyn Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The primary purpose of this study was to examine how African American women in corporations develop leadership and construct their leadership style through informal and incidental learning experiences. This study explored relationships between informal adult learning and career mapping processes of leadership for African American women. A…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Incidental Learning, African Americans, Females
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Thananopavarn, Susan – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2012
This essay explores the relationship between Ana Castillo's novel "So Far from God" (1993) and her development of an activist poetics inspired by Paulo Freire's influential 1970 treatise "Pedagogy of the Oppressed." "So Far from God" may be understood as the practical application of Castillo's theory of "conscienticized poetics"; that is, the…
Descriptors: Activism, Humor, Novels, Literary Criticism
DeFelice, William – English Teaching Forum, 2012
Teaching in a monolingual/monocultural, non-English speaking environment can at times be frustrating. Teachers want their students to genuinely communicate with each other in socially acceptable ways, and at the same time become more aware of cultural traits. What is needed in a classroom is a reaction that is real because it is spontaneous. This…
Descriptors: Cultural Traits, Monolingualism, Humor, Speech Acts
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Sayer, Peter; Meadows, Bryan – Intercultural Education, 2012
The authors take a critical language pedagogy approach to examining a 2011 controversy over disparaging comments towards Mexicans made by commentators of the British Broadcasting Corporation's automotive show Top Gear. In particular, they focus on the characterization of groups and individuals according to their nationality and examine the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Cultural Awareness, Stereotypes, Self Concept
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Mease, Jennifer J. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2012
The business case for diversity--the practice of connecting human differences to an organization's bottom line--has been critiqued for its compromised treatment of human difference. Through a grounded in action discursive analysis of 19 interviews with diversity consultants, this research identifies three occupational demands that prompted…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Consultants, Social Change, Interviews
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