{"title":"Humor in Education: Exploring Its Complexities and Its Possibilities","authors":"Nathan Hensley","doi":"10.7459/ept/45.2.04","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Humor has the capacity to offer a variety of benefits to educational settings such as: creativity enhancement, community building, increased problem-solving capacity and much more. Yet, it requires mindful implementation to avoid negative consequences. In this paper, I provide an overview of the theories, research, and practical applications of humor in education. I make the argument that the mindful use of humor in education has benefits that extend beyond content retention because it also humanizes the educational process.","PeriodicalId":35223,"journal":{"name":"Educational Practice & Theory","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Educational Practice & Theory","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.7459/ept/45.2.04","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Humor has the capacity to offer a variety of benefits to educational settings such as: creativity enhancement, community building, increased problem-solving capacity and much more. Yet, it requires mindful implementation to avoid negative consequences. In this paper, I provide an overview of the theories, research, and practical applications of humor in education. I make the argument that the mindful use of humor in education has benefits that extend beyond content retention because it also humanizes the educational process.
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Educational Practice and Theory in its 40th year of publication continues as an important independent forum for original ideas in education research relevant to aspects of education including K-12 schools, education reforms, teaching methods and educational leadership. Educational Practice and Theory is: -a refereed journal with a distinguished panel of consulting editors; -comparative in focus; -innovative, path-finding and provocative; -diverse with reports on a wide range of countries and themes, and -applied and theoretical.
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