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1、HUMOR AND EDUCATIONby Don L. F. Nilsenand Alleen Pace Nilsen2021/6/31Let Education Happen!2021/6/32Doppelgangers2021/6/332012-2013 Teddy Bear Toss for 12,947 Kids at Penn State Hersheys Childrens Hospital:http:/ 2021/6/34The Effects of Education:2021/6/35Education Point of View!2021/6/36Cats and Chi
2、ldren Reading2021/6/37Books vs. Texting2021/6/38Children Laughing & PlayingHas the fungone out ofschool?With all thepressuresfor higher test scores, adultsare struggling to balance the value of play vs. “work.” 2021/6/393-Year Old Jonathan Conducting Beethovens 5th Symphony:http:/ Laughter2021/6/311
3、2021/6/3127-YEAR-OLD PLAYING BEETHOVENS “RAGE OVER A LOST PENNY:http:/ 2021/6/313On the side of play and humor people argue that humor:Fosters analytic, critical, and divergent thinking,Catches and holds students attention,Increases retention of learned material,Relieves stress and builds rapport be
4、tween teachers and students, Builds team spirit among classmates and smooths potentially rough interactions,Promotes risk taking while getting shy and slow students involved in activities.2021/6/314Suggestions for having fun while promoting critical and divergent thinking:In social studies classes,
5、research and report on “ludicrous laws,” such as the one saying that no birds are allowed to defecate in the downtown area.In science classes, discuss famous bad predictions such as “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.”In history classes, make WANTED posters for notorious villains.In mu
6、sic classes, dissect song lyrics and decide which ones are “realistic” vs. which ones are “fantasies.”2021/6/315Dia de Los Libros: 2012at Arizona State UniversityDon and Alleen Sharing Books2021/6/316Dia de Los Libros: 2013Don as Lemony Snickets Count Olaf2021/6/317Teacher burn-out is a serious issu
7、es because if the teacher is stressed, the students will also feel tense. “Survival Rules” cited by John Morreall:1.Try hard to see the absurdity in difficult situations.2.Learn to take yourself lightly while taking your work seriously, and3.Develop your sense of joy and being alive.2021/6/318Good T
8、eachers on TV2021/6/319Bad Teachers on TV2021/6/320HUMOR IN EDUCATIONJames Gordon, a professor at 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 s
9、o boring that it fits Mark Twains description of “chloroform in print.”Then he turns away for a minute and reappears in a simple disguise.2021/6/321Putting Excuses in Their PlaceTeacher Bill Haggart has noticed that students are really good at thinking of excuses for being absent or for not doing th
10、eir homework assignments. He accepts only written excuses, and when students bring them to him he has the student place their note on a bulletin board under one of the three following categories:Helpless,Hopeless, orNot in Control of the Body.The activity brings a light touch to the moment, while al
11、so making students think twice about whether they want to bring in an excuse. 2021/6/322Teachers Miss an Opportunity if They Do Not Make Humorous Books AvailableSOME FAVORITES:Roald DahlJack GantosGary PaulsenJ. K. RowlingLouis SacharShel SilversteinLemony Snicket (Daniel Handler)2021/6/323With Olde
12、r Students, Teachers Can Use Childrens Literature to Teach the Following Literary Concepts ExaggerationAnti-Authority HumorComedies of MannersIntellectual Play, including fantasy and wordplayParodySurprise, Incongruity and Scary, Shocking or Verboten References2021/6/324ANTI-AUTHORITY HUMORAlison Lu
13、rie 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 Ro
14、o, Owl, Piglet, Pooh, Rabbit and Tigger .COMEDIES OF MANNERSOne 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
15、, are assigned the best parts in the Christmas program.2021/6/325EXAGGERATIONThe greedy children who get their just desserts on Roald Dahls Charlie and the Chocolate Factory make readers feel superior as do the characters in Harry Allard and James Marshalls The Stupids Have a Ball, The Stupids Step
16、Out, and The Stupids Die.LANGUAGE PLAYOne 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.EMOTIONAL MATURITYJudith Viorsts Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day makes rea
17、ders laugh while lending reassurance that people do survive bad days.2021/6/326David after Dentist:http:/ 2021/6/327SHOCKING AND SURREALISTIC INCONGRUITIESMaurice Sendak has created such imaginative books as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen.Sendaks dream sequences are as creative a
18、s the ones in Lewis Carrolls Alice in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass, and they are are accessible to much younger children.Neil Gaimans The Graveyard Book is an especially intriguing and rich book that both children and adults enjoy.2021/6/328We found this picture on-line and have no idea w
19、hat the teacher did to arouse such energy and enthusiasm. From your own experience in school, suggest ideas.2021/6/329Three-fourths of the time in what used to be called “Grammar School” is spent on language skills. Walter Redfern, in his Puns says that children play with words much like they do wit
20、h toys.Without humor, they would lack practice in the art of thinkingthe most complex and powerful survival tool that humans have.2021/6/330Students enjoy drawing cartoons to illustrate different meanings of words. These were modeled after Fred Gwynnes picture book A Chocolate Moose for Dinner.“Dadd
21、y said that he works at the plant.”“Daddy says we have the right to bear arms.”2021/6/331The puns and double meanings in nursery rhymes and nonsense verse get children ready for the double meanings of words in the Amelia Bedelia books that you probably remember from grade school. Amelia is a housema
22、id 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.DO YOU REM
23、EMBER ANY OF HER OTHER PUNS?2021/6/332This little boy leaving the public library in Provo, Utah plays a joke by sharing his book with the bronze statue “boy.”2021/6/3332021/6/334Young children can be shocked and amused by very simple allusions. For example, kindergartners eyes grow big when they ima
24、gine 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.2021/6/335Harve and Margot
25、 Zemachs Duffy and the Devil is for slightly older children.It 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.2021/6/33
26、6Suspension of Disbelief:Don and Alleen as Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus2021/6/337Roald 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
27、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.2021/6/338Mrs. Twit is ugly mainly because she is filled with “ugly thoughts.”In one scene she drops her glass eye into Mr. Twits
28、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.”2021/6/339David Wiesners Art & Max is a clever book set in an Arizona desert.This bulletin board featur
29、es printed and enlarged copies of student comments.The book can be enjoyed by adults as well as kids.Wiesner said he created this story about WONDER as a homage to all the artists he loves.His work illustrates the idea that picture books are really modern “museums between covers.”2021/6/340Art and M
30、ax2021/6/341PARODIES ARE INCREASINGLY POPULAR WITH MANY STUDENTS EXPERIENCING THE PARODY BEFORE THEY MEET THE “REAL” STORYAmong the most popular parodies are 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 Ma
31、th Curse. 2021/6/342SOUTHPARK:http:/ Shout-Out for RiddlesAdults are always amazed at how young children love the simplest of riddles and tell them over and over again.They are playing with language, which is their key to adult success, much like small animals play with chasing and fetching and fall
32、ing all over each other as they get ready for adulthood.2021/6/344Heres One of Our FavoritesA 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
33、the chicken pox.ORShe uses the saw to cut the table in half. Since two halves make a whole, she crawls out through the hole.2021/6/345ORShe plays the piano until she finds the right key. Then she unlocks the door and lets herself out.ORShe runs around the room until she wears herself out.ORShe swing
34、s the baseball bat three times. Its three strikes, and shes out.2021/6/346Heres another one we like:What has 18 legs and red spots and catches flies?A baseball team with the measles.2021/6/347These stages of riddle appreciation come from an article by J. Kenneth Whitt and Norman M. Prentice publishe
35、d in Developmental Psychology .1.PRE-RIDDLE: What did the big firecracker say to the little firecracker?Youre too little to pop!2.HOMONYMIC NEUTRAL RIDDLE: Why is a packed baseball field always cool?It has a fan in every seat!2021/6/3483. HOMONYMIC SUPERIORITY RIDDLE: Why did the little girl eat bul
36、lets?”She wanted her hair to grow out in bangs!4.IMPROBABLE RELATIONSHIP RIDDLE: Where can you find roads without cars?On a map!5.RIDDLE PARODY: What do squirrels have that no other animal has?Baby squirrels!2021/6/349A MORE SOPHISTICATED RIDDLE PARODY:In The Joys of Yiddish, Leo Rosten tells about
37、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.”2021/6/350“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 g
38、reen.” 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.”2021/6/351Points of View about
39、Education2021/6/352The Teachers Perspective:TAYLER MALI (WHAT DO TEACHERS MAKE?):http:/ THE THE IMPOTENCE OF PROOFREEDING (TAYLOR MALI):http:/ 2021/6/3532021/6/354The Student Perspective2021/6/355The Teachers Perspective2021/6/356Father Guido Sarduccis Five Minute University:http:/ 2021/6/357In conclusion, we will simply end with this picture of two girls having fun in an educational environment.2021/6/358The real Conclusion2021/6/359部分资料从网络收集整理而来，供大家参考，感谢您的关注！
