This article inquires into the role of humor in the relational learning process that takes place in adventure education programs. It presents program episodes, which the authors experienced in their practice as facilitator, staff trainer and researcher, and explores the related literature. Four aspects appear to affect whether humor either…

Switching from humor to sentiment at the turn of a page, this is a great gift book for retiring teachers or any teacher having a rough day. It deals humorously with situations every teacher can relate to. An added bonus is a Donna Whyte poem that's perfect for reading at retirement celebrations.

The semiotics of the stuff faculty stick to their office doors has recently attracted scholarly interest. It has been noted that these office doors represent a blank canvas, a space that a professor can fill with images and texts that furnish clues to his or her beliefs, interests, and philosophy of learning. This present study was inspired by the…

This paper explores young children's rhythmic, musical, humorous and playful communication in the context of empowering themselves to create meaningful curriculum during teacher-controlled routine morning-tea times in an early childhood education centre. The data, presented as "events", formed part of an interpretive qualitative study…

This study investigated the humorous activity of two infants, 18 and 21 months old, in their infant group childcare setting. This was a qualitative study that followed two infants for four months. Through participant and non-participant observations, journal writing and interviews, data were collected on children's involvement in humorous…

Four experiments were conducted to assess the roles of politeness and humor in the asymmetry of affect observed in verbal irony production. In Experiments 1 and 2, participants rated different replies (ironic, literal, or "no response") made to hypothetical scenarios for their politeness and humor, respectively. Participants in Experiment 3 were…

The Comanchee Wasp-eater clan was so named, because a group of men had observed them eating honey, but seeing only the bees, had assumed the Comanchees to be eating bees or wasps. (JC)

Humorous recounting of criticism of the schools through the ages. (IRT)

An investigation of the role of joking and teasing in the development of friendship and professional respect between white and black teachers in a newly integrated Southern school district. (EH)

The reliability of a taxonomy of humor was tested in two studies. The first study involved rater identification of nine categories for humorous incidents excerpted from television comedy programs (wordplay, exaggeration/understatement, contrast, audience knowledge, aggression, emotion, taboo, pratfall/slapstick, and repetition). The second study,…

Two experiments were conducted examining the mood altering effects of humor and the moderating effect of laughter on both humor appreciation and mood. The mood of the subjects in the first experiment was manipulated to make them feel slightly elated or slightly depressed. They then listened to either comedy routines or an interview. The comedy…

A humorous account is given of a typical day at the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC), which provides information services to educators in 23 California Counties and parts of seven other states. (JPF)

Presented is a humorous account of Burt Benfang, an art education major and artist steeped in the twentieth century tradition of unfettered self-expression, art materials potpourri ad infinitum, nonspecific creativity, minimal art, maximal art, conceptual art, and right-brain inflation via inverted images. (RM)

Citing the rising frequency of automobile recalls as proof of the decline of the automobile industry, this article humorously proposes six suggestions for reforming the industry. The suggestions are remarkably similar to recent proposals for the reform of schooling. (PGD)

In a somewhat "tongue-in-cheek" style, 10 rules are outlined to serve as a guide for college professors to follow to become successful academic "princes." The rules are based on Machiavelli's "The Prince." (MD)