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Humour as a teaching tool in higher education


What are some ways to use humor to engage diverse learners?

Humor can be a powerful tool to enhance learning, especially for diverse learners who may come from different backgrounds, cultures, ...

The Benefits of Humor in the Classroom

The results of the study show that humor can be a powerful tool when used in the classroom. ... The overall opinion of the lessons was ...

Teaching With Humor | The Institute of Progressive Education and ...

As a pedagogical tool, humor can help reduce student anxiety, diffuse awkward classroom situations, and increase retention of lecture-specific information.

Higher Education Lecturing and Humor: From Perspectives to ...

... teacher (Horng, Hong, ChanLin, Chang, &. Chu, 2005). Powell and Andresen (1985) claim that humor is a valuable teaching tool with many benefits ...

EFFECTS OF HUMOR IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

creation of a conducive learning environment, great value lies in the use of humor as a specific pedagogical tool to illustrate and teach both formal ...

Laughter and Learning - Education Reimagined

How many of us can recall a teacher who deployed humor as a tool for learning? While I could include a list of tools that range from tongue ...

Students' and Teachers' Perceptions of Classroom Humour

Humour or educational humour, which is a teaching method and "an instructional tool ... cartoons as an instructional tool for college chemistry. Journal of ...

What Educators Can Learn from Comedians

The Outcome: Humor Is an Effective Learning Tool. HOW THE ... Higher Education. About Us · Contact Us · Copyright Permission · Help Center ...

Opinion: On humor, happiness and higher education - CTPost

As the COVID crisis, mental health concerns and labor shortages affect us all, humor is a paramount pedagogical tool ... Institutions of higher ...

Laughing with the lecturer: the use of humour in shaping university ...

Is humour an appreciated teaching tool? College Teaching, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 14-20. Ulloth, J (2002). The benefits of humor in nursing education. Journal ...

Humour as a Professionally Significant Competence of a Teacher

humour by teachers as an effective tool of pedagogical activity. The reason might be found in the current educational paradigm. A teacher is perceived as ...

How laughing leads to learning - American Psychological Association

Tools for psychologists to do their jobs every day. Your Growth ... One study pointing to humor's benefits appeared this year in College Teaching ...

Don't Joke About Me: Student Identities and Perceptions of Instructor ...

Humor is a popular tool used by instructors to engage students. However, some instructor jokes may be perceived as less funny and more offensive by ...

The Funny Thing About STEM

Is Humor an Appreciated Teaching Tool? Perceptions of Professors' Teaching ... Teachers' humor in the college classroom, Communication Education, 28:2, 110-118.

The Role of Humor in the Classroom - UCDS

Humor is by far the best teaching tool I use on a daily basis. I couldn't do my job properly without it. Even in the midst of a global ...

Essays on Teaching Excellence - POD Network

Higher Education (www.podnetwork.org). LAUGHTERPIECE. THEATRE: Humor as a. Systematic Teaching Tool. Ronald A. Berk, Johns Hopkins University. Where do you ...

Humor in the Classroom - A Review of Current Literature - Amazon S3

Even though students view humor as an effective teaching tool, as with most tools there exist perceived dangers associated with misuse. Firstly the ...

Use of humour in language classes: an effective ‘filter’ for ...

In this sense, humour can be seen as a valuable teaching tool particularly ... Teaching for Effective Learning in Higher Education. Netherlands: Kluwer ...

Tips on Using Humor in Online Learning - MindEdge

For some, bringing humor into the classroom can appear daunting or possibly inauthentic. If humor isn't a tool you feel comfortable using just ...

Potent Roles of Humor in EFL Classes in Higher Education

From your experience, is humor a communicative and learning device or a disturbing tool that leads to a waste of time? ➢ According to my ...