Presents eight humorous ways a consumer can tell whether he has purchased a good or bad microcomputer. (MBR)

Tongue-in-cheek Tolkien-like impressions of a conference on open education (Kerhonkson, New York, May 1973.) Strong jargonese overtones imply a high futility level score for this, and many other such conferences to which educators flock. (EA)

Satirizes attempts by the Reagan administration to address social problems. (RH)

Shows how particular features of language are exploited for purpose of humor and reveals the general persuasiveness of incongruity as an element of humor. Features include polysemy, syntactic structures and meaning, deep and surface structure, hyperbole and metaphor, speech patterns, problems of communication, and connectors or linking words. (BK)

This article gives humorous interpretations of educational terms in vogue in the professional community. (CJ)

Uses as vehicle the history of "Speculative Excursions into the Everyday Lives of Old People" sessions at Gerontological Society of America's Annual Scientific Meetings to present semiserious discussion of place of humor in gerontology. Describes purposes of sessions, reactions of colleagues, rejections of papers, and hopes and future prospects of…

Offers 15 humorous questions and answers for certifying Bards for poetry therapy who, once certified, will know exactly what to do when an irresistible farce faces down an immovable objective correlative. (SR)

This tongue-in-cheek humorous article reviews the therapeutic interventions available for children with autism by slightly changing the terminology used. Examples include "discrete trails,""indiscreet trails,""behavior oralysis,""incident training,""by-the-way training," the "unnatural language paradigm,""facilitated miscommunication," and…

Feminist pedagogy as a research construct can be classified into gender and liberatory subgroups. Gender models frequently focus on learning. Liberatory models underline the social structures and power relations which constitute systems of oppression. Humor in practice may be used as a social corrective, or it may be used to extend power distances…

Humor means understanding not only the language and words but their use, meaning, subtle nuances, the underlying culture, implications and unwritten messages. Humor does not often travel well from one culture to another, as each society has a somewhat different concept of what is funny (Dobson, 1987). In Foreign Language Learning (FLL), the…

While interaction inside the classroom--frontstage discourse--has been a subject of study and has been considered the most significant type of discourse that teachers engage in, I propose that interaction outside the classroom--backstage discourse--is equally significant and has not thus far received as much attention as it merits. This paper is…

This study explores what classroom behaviors and activities in the basic speech course contribute to student connectedness. The results indicate that student encouragement, humor, honesty, interactive exercises and individual speeches, can help student bonding and motivation, and impacts their overall college experience.

According to the literature, humor is a critical tool to enhance the counseling process because it can reduce stress, build rapport, and aid in the increase of the client's self-efficacy. In recent years, the critical nature of using humor appropriately from a cultural perspective has been explored. In this article, the authors further explore the…

This article explores the existence of humor in counseling from the perspectives of several leaders in the field. Specifically, the last 5 authors describe some of their thoughts and experiences regarding the emergence of humor in counseling.

This document contains a brief bibliography of peer-reviewed literature, with abstracts, on humor in later life. It is one of 12 bibliographies on aging prepared by the National Agricultural Library for its "Pathfinders" series of publications. Topics covered by the other 11 bibliographies include aging parents, adult children, dementia and…