Affiliative humour is associated with positive classroom climate, enjoyment and willingness to participate among adolescent students¶
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q2 i? Students highlight affiliative humour as correlated with a positive classroom climate and increased willingness to participate in class. → Hannah Robinson 2024
Evidence¶
Hannah Robinson 2024¶
Hannah Robinson, Sarah E. Rose, Jade M. Elliott, Romina A. Vivaldi. (2024). Teachers' Humour Use in the Classroom: A Scoping Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09913-x
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Narrative synthesis of student-report studies (theme four); the review reports correlational student-survey findings attributing positive classroom climate to affiliative humour, citing Tsukawaki et al. (2020).
"Affiliative humour was particularly highlighted by students as being correlated with a positive classroom climate (Tsukawaki et al., 2020)."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Aggressive humour has mixed effects on adolescent students' educational experiences, with reported increases in anger, boredom and resistance but some students reporting sarcasm improved rapport
- Course-related humour is positively correlated and course-unrelated humour negatively correlated with students' perceptions of instructional interestingness and intrinsic motivation
- Teachers' humour (unspecified) shows mixed observed effects on adolescent students' classroom experience, with reported benefits to environment and learning alongside reduced participation and loss of control
- High teacher humour use is associated with higher student test scores in observed classroom studies, though humour style and frequency were poorly specified — related
- Observed teacher humour differs from self-reports: sarcasm and mocking accounted for nearly two-thirds of observed teacher humour although teachers and students reported aggressive humour as least common — related
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Affiliative humour is associated with positive classroom climate, enjoyment and willingness to participate among adolescent students |
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Affiliative humour is associated with positive classroom climate, enjoyment and willingness to participate among adolescent students |
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