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March 29, 2017
“Assessing Student Perceptions of Inappropriate and Appropriate Teacher Humor”
- Author
- Frymier, Ann Bainbridge; Melissa Bekelja Wanzer, and Ann M. Wojtaszczyk
- Publisher
- Eric Ed.gov ies Institiution of Education of Sciences Online Submission, 2007, November 22
This study replicated and extended Wanzer et al.'s (2006) typology of appropriate and inappropriate teacher humor and advanced explanations for student interpretations of teacher humor. Three explanations were advanced for why teacher humor may be perceived as inappropriate by students. First, disposition and incongruity-resolution theories were used to explain the cognitive and affective elements of teacher humor, second, student communication predispositions were advanced as an explanation, and the third explanation was teacher communication predispositions. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript