HumourAdventure® Resources
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The following links will take you to a wide variety of resources, such as articles on the benefits of laughter, suggestions for incorporating humour into the workplace or the classroom and research into the use of humour in life and work.
We hope you will find some inspiration and useful ideas among them!
A Big Mystery – Why do We Laugh?
A Sense of Humour in the Classroom
(YouTube video – three teachers’ perspectives)
Best Teaching Practices: Humor in the Classroom
Brain-Friendly Humor in the Classroom
(By Jane Elder, PhD, from www.readingprof.com – PDF file)
Career and Technical Education Teacher Burnout: Impact of Humor-Coping Style and Job-Related Stress
(Abstract only)
Facilitating Effects of Humour on Creativity
(Abstract only: full article for purchase)
Fun At Work
(UK site)
Humor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. it up in Teaching
(By Randy Garner, Sam Houston State University, Published in Radical Pedagogy, 2005.)
Humor and Fun in the Workplace
Humor as an Instructional Practice: A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Humor Use in the Classroom
(Paper presented by Scott D. Dickmeyer, 1993)
Humor as Motivation for Effective Learning in the Classroom
(Barbara Bandes, 1988)
Humor in the Classroom: Considerations and Strategies
(Debra Korobkin, College Teaching, Vol. 36, No. 4 (Fall, 1988), pp. 154-158)
Humor, Learning and Socialization in Middle Level Classrooms
(Judy P. Pollak and Paul D. Freda, The Clearing House, Vol. 70, No. 4, Mar-Apr, 1997, pp. 176-178)
Humor Post Office
(Funny All Occasions Greeting Cards)
Laughter
(American Scientist Article)
Making Sense of Humour in the Workplace
On the Essence and Characters of Teaching Humor
(Pin Jie and Song Nai-Qing, South West Normal University, Chongqing, 400715 , China, 2005.)
PENN Positive Psychology Center
PEPLab
(Positive Emotions and Psychophysiology Laboratory. Focuses on the work of Barbara Fredrickson)
Psychological Health and Sense of Humor
(PDF file)
Recommended Reading on Humor
(List provided by Alan Klein)
Teacher Burnout: A Laughing Matter
Therapeutic Benefits of Laughter
Humor in the Classroom: Stu’s Seven Simple Steps to Success
(By Stuart V Hellman. College Teaching Vol 55 No.1. PDF file)
Why Use Humor in the Classroom?
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