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Using humor to maximize learning : the links between positive emotions and education / Mary Kay Morrison

Author
Morrison, Mary Kay, 1946-
Published
Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages)
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Contents
1. Humor -- The Tonic for Tired Educators -- 2. Developing Your Humor Being: A Nut Is Born -- 3. Examining Brain Research and Humor: Mouse Droppings -- 4. Hurtful Humor Is No Laughing Matter -- 5. The Humor Workout: Pumping Up with Practice -- 6. Humor Extravaganza: It's a Circus Out There! -- 7. Survival Humor for Stressed Leaders -- App. 1. Humor Terminology -- App. 2. Comedian List.
Summary
The purpose of this book is to affirm, sustain and encourage educators in the practice of humor not only as a personal tool to optimize a healthy life style, but to maximize the benefits of humor in education. These benefits include current research-based data on the use of humor to nurture creativity, to increase the capacity for memory retention, to support an optimal learning environment and to build safe communities that reflect the relational trust necessary for collaborative learning.
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ISBN
9781610484626 (ebook)
1610484622
9781578867318 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781578867325 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
1578867312 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1578867320 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-197).
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