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Hackathorn, Jana; Garczynski, Amy M.; Blankmeyer, Katheryn; Tennial, Rachel D.; Solomon, Erin D. – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2011
It has been argued that humor is beneficial in the classroom because it increases social bonding between instructor and student, salience of information, and ultimately recall and retention. The current study sought to add to the literature by empirically testing some assumptions about humor as a pedagogical tool. Specifically, we predicted that…
Descriptors: Humor, Learner Engagement, Attachment Behavior, Classroom Environment
Kovarsky, Dana; Schiemer, Christine; Murray, Allison – Topics in Language Disorders, 2011
We examined uncomfortable moments that damaged rapport during group interactions between college students in training to become speech-language pathologists and adults with traumatic brain injury. The students worked as staff in a community-based program affiliated with a university training program that functioned as a recreational gathering…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Speech Language Pathology, Interpersonal Relationship, Humor
Powell, Sara Davis – Middle School Journal (J3), 2011
Wayside teaching focuses on building and maintaining positive relationships with students. Teachers can implement certain wayside teaching practices to end the year in a positive way and begin preparing for the next school year.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Role
Banta, Trudy W., Ed. – Assessment Update, 2012
This issue of "Assessment Update" presents the following articles: (1) A "Wisdom of Crowds" Approach to Outcomes Assessment (Gregory Burton); (2) Editor's Notes: Collective Assessment and DQP Follow-Up (Trudy W. Banta); (3) Satisfaction with Data Management Systems in Standards-Based Alignment (Brett Everhart and Jeanne M.…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Internship Programs, Program Evaluation, Community Colleges
Escalante, Lora Beth – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The study investigates how language is used among 17 children in a dual language classroom as they create academic-based one-act plays in conjunction with social studies instruction. Examining over 20 hours of video, the teacher researcher analyzes students' use of translanguaging during cooperative groupings in order to co-accomplish an…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Drama, Teaching Methods, Video Technology
Riley, Mary – School Administrator, 2009
Much speculation exists over what contributes to the high rates of superintendent turnover and mobility. One increasingly overheard reason for what drives superintendent movement falls into a category generally relating to family or "personal reasons." Academics who have studied the issue identify insufficient time with family as an explanation.…
Descriptors: Superintendents, Spouses, Family Work Relationship, Coping
Davies, Lynn – International Review of Education, 2009
This paper is based on a recently published book, "Educating Against Extremism" (Davies, "Educating Against Extremism," 2008), which explores the potential role of schools in averting the more negative and violent forms of extremism in a country. It examines the nature of extremism; identity formation and radicalisation; religious belief, faith…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Young Adults, Religious Factors, Terrorism
Brown, Donna W. – Library Media Connection, 2008
In this article, the author relates her difficult adjustment to regular routine when she retired as a middle school librarian for over three decades. She recalls one incident in which she patrolled a beach after seeing women slathering on suntan oil and turning the pages of library books, leaving fingerprints on each page. She also tells of…
Descriptors: Librarians, Retirement, Coping, Leisure Time
Berman, Ruth – Children's Literature in Education, 2008
The second book edition of Louisa May Alcott's Hospital Sketches eliminated jokes about drinking and religion. Although these were small changes, the edgy theme of drinking and religion as topics that could and sometimes should be taken lightly (even by a writer who also considered both topics as serious) interested Alcott throughout her career.…
Descriptors: Authors, Drinking, Religion, Humor
Slocombe, Tom; Miller, Donald; Hite, Nancy – American Journal of Business Education, 2011
This study was designed to help faculty and administrators weigh the value of using student ratings of professors' teaching effectiveness and to determine factors that may affect those ratings. For this study, conducted at a Midwestern AACSB accredited School of Business, 163 students (23% of the business majors) were surveyed to determine their…
Descriptors: Surveys, Student Attitudes, College Faculty, Business Administration Education
McCartney Matthews, Melissa Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2011
Research literature relating to the use of humor as a teaching method or curricula specifically designed to include humor was reviewed to investigate the effects of humor on student learning in various environments from elementary schools to post-secondary classrooms. In this multi-method study, four instruments and a humor treatment were selected…
Descriptors: Humor, Teaching Methods, Short Term Memory, Long Term Memory
Forman, Ross – Applied Linguistics, 2011
The relationship between creativity, play, and language learning has been of increasing interest over the past decade, but the role of humour itself in SLL remains significantly under-explored. The present study examines humorous language play initiated by a bilingual EFL teacher and taken up by his post-beginner students in a Thai university…
Descriptors: Creativity, Linguistics, Foreign Countries, English (Second Language)
Loizou, Eleni – Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood, 2011
This was a two-phase qualitative study that investigated the humorous aspects of humorous photographs young children took in their school and home environment, which were examined in the context of the theory of the absurd and the empowerment theory. The participants in the study were six children--three boys and three girls--between the ages of…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Photography, Interviews, Family Environment
Brownhill, Simon – Gender and Education, 2014
Young boys' "underachievement" and their disaffection with learning continue to dominate education agendas [Francis, B. 2006. "Stop That Sex Drive." "Times Educational Supplement" 30; Peeters, J. 2007. "Including Men in Early Childhood Education: Insights from the European Experience." "NZ Research in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Males, Underachievement, Achievement Gap
Worner, C. H.; Romero, A.; Bustamante, G. – Physics Education, 2010
An achievement evaluation of a non-conventional physics course for liberal arts students is presented. The theoretical ground for this course focuses on the use of humour as a teaching tool. Preliminary evidence shows that a learning process is accomplished. (Contains 1 table and 3 figures.)
Descriptors: Physics, Humor, Teaching Methods, College Students