A Study of Laughter in Science Lessons

Autor/inn/en	Roth, Wolff-Michael; Ritchie, Stephen M.; Hudson, Peter; Mergard, Victoria
Titel	A Study of Laughter in Science Lessons
Quelle	In: Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 48 (2011) 5, S.437-458 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-4308
DOI	10.1002/tea.20412
Schlagwörter	Science Teachers; Humor; Science Instruction; Teaching Methods; Beginning Teachers; Classroom Environment; Interaction; Social Influences; Ethnography; Observation; Classroom Communication; Grade 7 + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Science; Teacher; Teachers; Science teacher; Wissenschaft; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Humoristische Darstellung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Junior teacher; Junglehrer; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Interaktion; Sozialer Einfluss; Ethnografie; Beobachtung; Klassengespräch; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07
Abstract	Laughter is a fundamental human phenomenon. Yet there is little educational research on the potential functions of laughter on the enacted (lived) curriculum. In this study, we identify the functions of laughter in a beginning science teacher's classroom throughout her first year of teaching. Our study shows that laughter is more than a gratuitous phenomenon. It is the result of a collective interactive achievement of the classroom participants that offsets the seriousness of science as a discipline. Laughter, whereas it challenges the seriousness of science, also includes the dialectical inversion of the challenge: it simultaneously reinforces the idea of science as serious business. Furthermore, levels of intimacy, complicity, and solidarity between the teacher and her students were reproduced and transformed through their laughter in class. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10