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McCoy, Leah P., Ed. – Online Submission, 2023
This document presents the proceedings of the 27th Annual Research Forum held June 29, 2023, at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Included are the following fifteen action research papers: (1) The Effects of Real-World Mathematics Activities on High School Students' Attitudes (Alexa Altizer); (2) An Investigation of the…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Mathematics Activities, High School Students, Student Attitudes
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Klein, Sheri R. – Art Education, 2013
What's funny about art--and why should art educators care? Art historians, critics, and artists are now taking a closer look at art that generates a laugh. This has particular relevance for art educators who seek to direct student engagement in new and exciting areas and embrace artworks that generally fall outside of the art school…
Descriptors: Humor, Art Education, Secondary Education, Higher Education
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Persicke, Angela; Tarbox, Jonathan; Ranick, Jennifer; St. Clair, Megan – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013
Previous research has demonstrated that children with autism often have difficulty using and understanding non-literal language ("e.g.," irony, sarcasm, deception, humor, and metaphors). Irony and sarcasm may be especially difficult for children with autism because the meaning of an utterance is the opposite of what is stated. The current study…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Autism, Emotional Response, Children
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Cabrera, Nolan L. – Journal of College Student Development, 2014
This study critically analyzes White male college student narratives regarding racial joking. Through semi-structured interviews, 29 participants described a pattern of behavior and rationalization: they heard and told racist jokes frequently; the jokes were framed as not racist; and the jokes were told only among White people, because the…
Descriptors: Males, White Students, College Students, Humor
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Smith, Jonathan Z.; Pearson, Thomas; Gallagher, Eugene V.; Jensen, Tim; Fujiwara, Satoko – Teaching Theology & Religion, 2014
This interview was recorded in November 2012 in Jonathan Z. Smith's Hyde Park graystone. Professor Smith offers insights into how he thinks about his classroom teaching and his students' learning through descriptions of various assignments and classroom activities he has developed over more than forty years of teaching. The discussion…
Descriptors: Religious Education, College Instruction, Assignments, Class Activities
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Burnett, Audrey J.; Walter, Katherine Ott; Baller, Stephanie L. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2016
Digital stories (N = 71) were created in partial fulfillment of undergraduate coursework at a large mid-Atlantic university. Based on the alcohol habitus, two major themes emerged: the content present (e.g., dissonance between visual and narrative representations) and the content conspicuously absent from the stories (e.g., first-person…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Humor, Drinking, Teaching Methods
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Barthelemy, Ramón S.; McCormick, Melinda; Henderson, Charles – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2016
Sexism occurs when men are believed to be superior to women, and is thought to be one of the reasons for women's underrepresentation in physics and astronomy. The issue of sexism in physics and astronomy has not been thoroughly explored in the physics education literature and there is currently no clear language for discussing sexism in the field.…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Females, Physics
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Huang, Yueh-Min; Liu, Ming-Chi; Lai, Chia-Hung; Liu, Chia-Ju – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2017
Teachers often use in-class questions to examine the level of understanding of their students, while these also enable students to reorganize their acquired knowledge. However, previous studies have shown that students may resist being questioned because of negative emotions. Therefore, this paper proposes the idea of eliciting positive emotions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Learning Experience, Questioning Techniques
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Liang, Mei-Ya – Classroom Discourse, 2015
Although research has investigated laughter in professional communication settings, fewer studies have explored laughter-talk in second language (L2) classrooms. This study examines L2 university students' use of laughter-talk in peer group conversation to understand the linguistics of affect and its interactional effects. The author draws upon…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Classroom Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Peer Relationship
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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
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Zubanova, L. V. – Russian Education & Society, 2014
The analysis of Russian humor shows that perceptions of Russian cultural traits, social structure, and history can be perpetuated and reproduced in ways that are politically and socially safe. [This article was translated by Kim Braithwaite.]
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Humor, Cultural Influences, Social Influences
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White, Elizabeth Jayne – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2014
Rabelaian carnivalesque provided philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin with a means of exploring the significance of humour through an examination of Middle Age peasant culture and the influence of the Renaissance on its legitimacy. This article argues that a similar phenomenon exists in modern educational settings and provides evidence to suggest that very…
Descriptors: Humor, Educational Philosophy, Early Childhood Education, Role
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Deviney, David E.; Crawford, John; Elder, Kevin L. – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2013
Student attention and engagement in the classroom is an ongoing problem that has generated a considerable amount of press in recent years. Some studies report that student attention begins to fade within 10-18 minutes (Weimer, 2009). While the statistics related to how long students stay attentive and engaged has been questioned (Wilson &…
Descriptors: Attention, Learner Engagement, Student Interests, Humor
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Gordon, Robert; Gere, David – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2016
The Sex Squad is a collective of US-based college students, who create and perform monologues, scenes and musical parodies for ninth graders (ranging in age from 13 to 15). The Sex Squad is the central element in the "AMP!" programme for adolescent sexual health, developed at the University of California-Los Angeles in collaboration with…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, College Students, Humor
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Luo, Lingling; Zhou, Chunfang; Zhang, Song – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2016
This article aims to study both similarities and differences in female students' creativity between Mainland China and Taiwan. As two main aspects influencing creativity, playfulness and humor are especially focused on in this comparative study. Empirical data were collected from 831 students in Mainland China and 703 students in Taiwan. Based on…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Geographic Regions, Humor, Creativity
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