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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (1): 199–205.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Bev Hogue In a 2002 article in College English , Peter Elbow argued that writing pedagogy would benefit by “[m]ore honoring of style, playfulness, fun, pleasure, humor” (543). Although Elbow was referring specifically to the need for cross-fertilization between the disciplines of literature...
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Pedagogy (2019) 19 (2): 339–351.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Kristen McDermott While there is ample evidence that students in higher education benefit from an instructor’s judicious use of humor in lectures and teaching materials, there is less analysis available about the benefits to student critical thinking and communication of making a formal study...
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Pedagogy (2012) 12 (3): 556–561.
Published: 01 October 2012
..., humorous, and experimental style, inspires students to revisit their own writing style and can teach them about the relationship between form and content. Specifically, Gubernatis Dannen uses David Foster Wallace’s essay “Roger Federer as Religious Experience” to demonstrate relationships between content...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (1): 206–210.
Published: 01 January 2011
...
I’m Not Making This Up
Taking Humor Seriously in the Creative Nonfiction Classroom
Bev Hogue
Last January I was at a big faculty hoop-de-do hobnobbing with colleagues
I had not seen since fall finals when I kept encountering the same annoy-
ing conversation: A colleague asks me what I...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (2): 371–394.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and persuasion, par-
ticularly when it comes to the use of humor in persuasion. Second, students’
role-play in the voices they use in different genres can foster a greater critical
awareness of language as representation. Third, for some students, the role-
play of parody can also build a stronger...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (2): 229–244.
Published: 01 April 2013
... of Latin .” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 96 : 345 – 49 . ———. 1996 . “ Ælfric’s Colloquy and Ælfric Bata .” Neophilologus 80 : 639 – 60 . Risden E. L. 2002 . “ Teaching Anglo-Saxon Humor, or ‘Yes, Virginia, There Is Humor in Beowulf’ .” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (3): 571–577.
Published: 01 October 2011
... a Window of Expression for a Worthy Cause .” New York Amsterdam News 95.17 : 37 . Hoffman Tyler . 2001 . “ Treacherous Laughter: The Poetry Slam, Slam Poetry, and the Politics of Resistance .” Studies in American Humor 3.8 : 49 - 64 . Melnikoff Kirk Munroe Jennifer . 2007...
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Pedagogy (2013) 13 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 April 2013
..., and the four humors). Rather than explaining the
doctrine of the four humors, the instructor might show students a fifteen-
minute snippet on medieval medicine from Terry Jones’s DVD Medieval
Lives (2008), meant to provide good humor as well as good content. After a
five-minute break, the instructor...
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Pedagogy (2011) 11 (3): 578–590.
Published: 01 October 2011
... a little competition, I finally decided on a “bad” poetry slam. I envi-
sioned a very specific definition of “bad poetry”: works that exaggerated
alliteration, onomatopoeia, rhyme, tone, and other literary components to
humorous extremes. Competing against each other for the most ridiculous
poem...
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Pedagogy (2024) 24 (2): 267–297.
Published: 01 April 2024
..., as editorial cartooning performs the same work of op-ed journalism, but in miniature: editorial cartoons shape public awareness of key issues and use humor to expose political and corporate malfeasance. Susan Steinfirst ( 1995 ), speaking at the Annual Conference of the International Association of School...
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Pedagogy (2024) 24 (2): 317–318.
Published: 01 April 2024
... of Christopher Durang (2020) and coeditor of How to Teach a Play: Essential Exercises for Popular Plays (2020). She has written articles about humor for Studies in American Humor , Text & Presentation , and Shaw: The Journal of Bernard Shaw Studies . Chris W. Gallagher is professor of English...
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Pedagogy (2010) 10 (3): 511–533.
Published: 01 October 2010
... of 1851 by Marcus Robinson in the Anti-slavery
Bugle, an abolitionist publication edited by Robinson. The Robinson version,
devoid of editorial asides and written without dialect, reads less dynamically.
It makes a general call for equality and freedom with more biblical references
and less humor...
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Pedagogy (2009) 9 (1): 167–175.
Published: 01 January 2009
... to remember and
teach about the Holocaust. Ezrahi situates the movie within the distinctive
tradition of Jewish humor, from, for example, Sholom Aleichem’s “Dreyfus
in Kasrilevka” through Becker’s Jacob the Liar, and to Englander’s short
story “The Tumblers.” Englander imagines the villagers...
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Pedagogy (2016) 16 (3): 539–549.
Published: 01 October 2016
..., or believe in ways
she is not used to being challenged. To facilitate such an environment, my
classroom persona is composed of the three hus of teaching: humor, humility,
and chutzpah. Living and teaching on the edge of propriety and beyond the
shores of certainty, I often make mistakes. I apologize...
Journal Article
Rhetorical Sovereignty and Rhetorical Alliance in the Writing Classroom: Using American Indian Texts
Pedagogy (2012) 12 (2): 209–233.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Man’s Indian: Images of the American Indian from Columbus to the Present . New York : Random House . Deloria Vine Jr . (1969) 1988 . “ Indian Humor .” In Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto , 146 – 67 . Norman : University of Oklahoma Press . Deloria Vine Jr...
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Pedagogy (2022) 22 (2): 325–337.
Published: 01 April 2022
... that invites creativity, celebrates creativity, and honors creativity. The classroom must be non-threatening and flexible. Often, it is full of humor and laughter. It is always full of excellent examples, read with heart and gusto. It must be a safe haven for experimentation.” A significant body of research...
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Pedagogy (2001) 1 (2): 405–409.
Published: 01 April 2001
... mate- 412 Pedagogy PED 1.2-19 From the classroom 3/27/01 11:54 AM Page 412 rial that is just offstage comes onto the stage of consciousness in the class- room. The second has to do with the literature of nihilism, and the third with the opening of the space of interpretation. 1. Humorous repartee. When...
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Pedagogy (2001) 1 (2): 410–416.
Published: 01 April 2001
... mate- 412 Pedagogy PED 1.2-19 From the classroom 3/27/01 11:54 AM Page 412 rial that is just offstage comes onto the stage of consciousness in the class- room. The second has to do with the literature of nihilism, and the third with the opening of the space of interpretation. 1. Humorous repartee. When...
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Pedagogy (2009) 9 (2): 217–233.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Books 100 : 8 - 26. Graff, Gerald. 1992 . Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education . New York: Norton. Heydt-Stevenson, Jill. 2000 . “ `Slipping into the Ha-Ha': Bawdy Humor and Body Politics in Jane Austen's Novels.” Nineteenth-Century...
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Pedagogy (2016) 16 (1): 178–185.
Published: 01 January 2016
... was.” In his reflection, the student explained
that he was conflicted between “a passage from Candide and several from
Faust.” All of them, he claimed, were “regarding the futility of scholarship.”
He ultimately decided on this quote because “it seems to contain a level of
inherent truth and humor...
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