Humor 101 by Earleywine Mitch;

Author:Earleywine, Mitch;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 2007-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

HUMOR IN EDUCATION

Many guides for instructors imply that comedic moments are the key to a joyous lecture. Some suggest that jokes will fill the classroom with the unparalleled motivation and creativity that will undoubtedly bring world peace, a cure for cancer, and better Pot Noodles. Most of these effusive endorsements of humorous instruction rest on anecdotes. I hate to let data get in the way of such enthusiasm. No one wants to see a return to the somber days of frightened students quaking in fear of an instructor’s rap on the knuckles with a ruler. Nevertheless, the ubiquitous demand to make learning fun seems to undermine the idea that some material worth mastering actually requires effort. Although it’s nice to see classrooms lighten up, I don’t relish the thought that my neurosurgeon learned the order of the cranial nerves from a witty ditty (Simpson, Biernat, & Marcdante, 2002). It seems as if humor could make learning more fun. It’s easy to hope that it could even increase learning. But what would motivate an instructor to increase the comedy of a class? Perhaps we should look at the dreaded teacher ratings.

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