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Title: HUMOR AND EDUCATION

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HUMOR AND EDUCATION

by Don L. F. Nilsen
and Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Teaching and Learning are Inseparable
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Children Laughing Playing
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Using Humor in the Classroom

Humor can foster analytic critical and
divergent thinking catch and hold students
attention increase retention of learned
material relieve stress build rapport between
teacher and students build team spirit among
classmates smooth potentially rough
interactions promote risk taking and get shy
and slow students involved in activities
(Morreall 2008 465).

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Critical and Divergent Thinking

Fred Stopskys Humor in the Classroom has ways of
promoting critical and divergent thinking
Have students design wanted posters for Adolph
Hitler and Sadam Hussein
Have students research ludicrous laws
Have students discuss famous bad predictions
like Heavier than air machines are impossible.
Have students discuss interesting song lyrics
like No Irish Need Apply.
(Morreall 2008 465)

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Lettuce Amuse U.

One of the largest driving schools in the state
of California is Lettuce Amuse U. This driving
school has only comics as instructors.
Their humor allows students to relax and when
students make mistakes their humorous reactions
allow them to learn in a non-defensive
way. (Morreall 2008 466)

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Metcalf and Felibles 3 Lighten-Up Rules of
Survival

In their Lighten Up Survival Skills for People
Under Pressure Metcalf and Felible have three
rules
1. Be able to see the absurdity in difficult
situations
2. Be able to take yourself lightly while taking
your work seriously and
3. Develop your sense of joy and being alive.
(Morreall 2008 466)

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Photo Funnies

Metcalf and Felible suggest that people visit a
photo booth and take several pictures of their
outlandishly distorted faces.
Then when a major problem arises take out the
photos and think You are not just the problem
youre having youre this too.
(Morreall 2008 467)

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HUMOR IN EDUCATION

James Gordon of Brigham Young University says
that when students are having fun the class
time virtually flies by and the 50 minutes of
class seem like a mere 48.
Sometimes he tells students that the days topic
is so boring that it fits Mark Twains
description of chloroform in print.
Then he turns away for a minute and reappears in
a simple disguise.
(Nilsen Nilsen 188)

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HUMOR IN CHILDRENS LITERATURE

Exaggeration is the most common feature of
humorous childrens literature however there are
other features as well
Antiauthority Humor
Comedies of Manners
Intellectual Play including fantasy and wordplay
Parody
Surprise Incongruity and Scary Shocking or
Verboten References (Nilsen Nilsen 68)

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ANTIAUTHORITY HUMOR

Alison Lurie in her Dont Tell the Grown-Ups Why
Kids Love the Books They Do conjectures that one
of the reasons children love the Winnie the Pooh
books is that they identify with Christopher
Robin who gets to be an all-powerful beneficent
dictator or at least the parent figure for
Eeyore Kanga Baby Roo Owl Piglet Pooh
Rabbit and Tigger .
(Nilsen Nilsen 68)

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COMEDIES OF MANNERS

One of the most entertaining comedies of manners
is Barbara Robinsons The Best Christmas Pageant
Ever in which the worst kids in town the
Herdmans who have even been known to smoke
cigars and to steal stuff from the Sunday School
cupboard are assigned the best parts in the
Christmas program.
(Nilsen Nilsen 69)

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EXCUSES

Children are really good at thinking of excuses
for being absent or for not doing their homework
assignments. When students brought excuses to
Bill Haggart he would have the students place
them on the bulletin board under one of the three
following categories
Helpless
Hopeless or
Not in Control of the Body.
(Nilsen Nilsen 263)

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EXAGGERATION

The greedy children who get their just desserts
on Roald Dahls Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
make readers feel superior as the characters do
in Harry Allard and James Marshalls The Stupids
Have a Ball The Stupids Step Out and The
Stupids Die.
(Nilsen Nilsen 68)

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LANGUAGE PLAY

One of Judy Blumes strengths in such books as
Are You There God Its Me Margaret and Tales
of a Fourth Grade Nothing is the witty dialogue
of her characters.
A book such as Judith Viorsts Alexander and the
Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day makes
readers laugh at Alexanders frustrations while
at the same time lending reassurance that people
do survive bad days.
(Nilsen Nilsen 69)

Walter Redfern in his Puns says that children
play with words much like they do with toys.
He says that without humor they would lack
practice in the art of thinkingthe most complex
and powerful survival tool that humans have.
(Nilsen Nilsen 70)

The puns and double meanings in nursery rhymes
and nonsense verse get children ready for the
double meanings of words in the eleven Amelia
Bedelia books by Peggy Parish.
Amelia is a housemaid who takes everything
literally.
When she is told to put out the lights she
hangs the light bulbs outside on the clothesline.
When she is told to dress the chicken she puts
ruffles and a skirt on it.
When she is told to draw the drapes she gets
out a sketch pad and makes a picture.
(Nilsen Nilsen 70)

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SHOCKING AND SURREALISTIC INCONGRUITIES

Maurice Sendak has created such imaginative books
as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night
Kitchen.
Sendaks dream sequences are as creative as the
ones in Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland or
Through the Looking Glass. And Sendaks books
are accessible to much younger children.
(Nilsen Nilsen 70)

Young children can be shocked by very simple
allusions.
For example kindergartners eyes grow big when
they imagine Hans Christian Andersens Emperor
without his clothes and they giggle at the sight
of holey socks boxer shorts garter belts and
bras in Karla Kuskin and Mark Simonts The
Philharmonic Gets Dressed.
For a similar reason kids love Dave Pilkeys
Captain Underpants books.
(Nilsen Nilsen 71)

Harve and Margot Zemachs Duffy and the Devil is
for slightly older children.
This is a Cornish version of Rumpelstiltskin in
which a frustrated devil turns Squire Lovels
newly knit clothes to ashes leaving the squire
out on the moor naked except for his boots and
the hat he clutches in front of his genitals.
(Nilsen Nilsen 71)

Roald Dahl is even more shocking in writing about
his Big Friendly Giant who thinks whizzpopping
farting is a sign of happinessmusic to our
ears.
In Dahls The Twits Mr. and Mrs Twit are two of
the grossest characters in all of childrens
literature.
Mr. Twit is repulsive and hairy and has a
disgusting beard that is a smorgasbord of moldy
rotten leftover bits of food stuck to his
whiskers.

Mrs. Twit is ugly mainly because she is filled
with ugly thoughts.
In one scene she drops her glass eye into Mr.
Twits beer so that when he gets to the bottom of
the glass he is amazed to see it staring up at
him.
I told you I was watching you cackled Mrs.
Twit. Ive got eyes everywhere so you better be
careful.
(Nilsen Nilsen 72)

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PARODY

Children also love parodies such as Jon
Scieszkas The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
The Frog Prince Continued The Stinky Cheese Man
And Other Fairly Stupid Tales and The Math
Curse.

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RIDDLES

A girl is locked in a room that is empty except
for a piano a wooden table a saw and a
baseball bat. The door is locked and there are
no windows or other openings. How does she get
out
She breaks out with the chicken pox.

Other possible answers are
She used the saw to cut the table in half. Since
two halves make a whole she crawled out through
the hole.
She played the piano until she found the right
key. Then she unlocked to door and let herself
out.

She ran around the room until she wore herself
out.
She swung the baseball bat three times. It was
three strikes and she was out.

What has 18 legs and red spots and catches flies
A baseball team with the measles.

!J. Kenneth Whitt and Norman M. Prentice wrote an
article in Developmental Psychology which
illustrated the stages of riddle appreciation
that children experience.
PRE-RIDDLE What did the big firecracker say to
the little firecracker
Youre too little to pop!

!HOMONYMIC NEUTRAL RIDDLE Why is a packed
baseball field always cool
It has a fan in every seat!
HOMONYMIC SUPERIORITY RIDDLE Why did the little
girl eat bullets
She wanted her hair to grow out in bangs!

!IMPROBABLE RELATIONSHIP RIDDLE Where can you
find roads without cars
On a map!
RIDDLE PARODY What do squirrels have that no
other animal has
Baby squirrels!

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!A MORE SOPHISTICATED RIDDLE PARODY

In The Joys of Yiddish Leo Rosten tells about a
father who asks his son What is it that hangs
on the wall is green wet and whistles
When the boy cannot guess the father responds
Its a herring.

!!But says the son a herring doesnt hang on
the wall. The father responds So hang it
there.
But says the son a herring isnt green. The
father responds So paint it green.
But says the son a herring isnt wet. The
father responds It is if its freshly painted.
But says the son in exasperation A herring
doesnt whistle. Right said the father I
just put that in to make it hard.
(Nilsen Nilsen 257)

!!!Mary Kay Morrison Teaches about Humor in the
Classroom
http//www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/tvoparents/index.cf
mpage_id483event_id2267sitefoldertvoparents

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HOT POTATOES HOME PAGE

For creating interactive multiple-choice
short-answer jumbled-sentence crossword
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises.
http//hotpot.uvic.ca/

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Students Having Fun
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Albert Einsteins Desk
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Barack Obamas Desk
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Humor in Education Web Sites

3-Year Old Jonathan Conducting Beethovens 5th
Symphony
http//www.youtube.com/watchv0REJ-lCGiKU
College Humor
http//www.collegehumor.com/
Father Guido Sarduccis Five Minute University
http//www.youtube.com/watchvkO8x8eoU3L4
Funny or Die
http//www.funnyordie.com/
HUMOR QUEST (Mary Kay Morrison)
http//www.questforhumor.com/

MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE
http//www.fox.com/malcolm/
TAYLER MALI (WHAT TEACHERS MAKE)
http//www.youtube.com/watchvfuBmSbiVXo0feature
related
PLAY FOLKLORE JOURNAL
http//museumvictoria.com.au/pages/15449/play-and-
folklore-53-april-2010.pdf
SAVED BY THE BELL
http//www.imdb.com/title/tt0096694/

SIMPSONS TALK ABOUT GRAD STUDENTS
http//www.youtube.com/watchvx8MBDeWmMho
SOUTHPARK
http//www.southparkstudios.com/clips/155394/tab
featured
THAT 70s SHOW
http//www.that70sshow.com/
THE THE IMPOTENCE OF PROOFREEDING (TAYLOR MALI)
http//www.youtube.com/watchvp_rwB5_3PQc

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