"Folks modify and develop in response to a challenge." (Fry & Salameh, 1987).
"At the deepest level, humor is the recognition that discomfort can be overcome." (Loomans & Kolberg, 1993).
"Accurate understanding often requires location in a spirit of joy and abandonment." --Maria Montessori.
"We're so hazardous since we're so harmless" (Marin & Chong, 2002).
The connection among the two fields of humor and education draws on the utilizes of humor in psychotherapy, the essence of humor, and the strategies employed in producing comedic material.
Humor is compelling and influential. It has influence. It modifications Folks's minds (Fry & Salameh, 1987). Comedy performances indirectly impact People today to modify their perspectives. Performers supply a function model for searching at life in a lighter way, of seeing one's personal faults, joking about them, and then acquiring on with life with a a lot more realistic perspective. With a relaxed air of strength, humorists encourage us to be uninhibited in examining our flaws and errors. This function model draws out the suppressed components of ourselves that want to locate expression (Sheehy, 1976).
We all have a special perspective, but really couple of Persons are encouraged to discover it, let alone express it. Humorist speakers have a powerful want to genuinely share what they feel and believe. They attempt to make Individuals laugh at typically held beliefs--a robust, even aggressive factor to do. They are interested in the query: "What do Men and women care about?" (Sankey, 1998).
A humorist speaker is, above all, a communicator. And to be a communicator, you have to care--not just about speaking, but also about becoming heard. This entails taking into account your audience's or learners' perspectives and expectations. To be a communicator is to wish connection, to coax Folks to develop into genuinely involved with what you are saying. This tends to make the humorist a form of outspoken philosopher, an anarchist dreamer, even a form of social hero (Sankey, 1998). All through the audience, a "neighborhood of knowers" exists-Folks united in a shared practical experience of attempting to make which means of their life knowledge.
The humorist can supply help to an audience in the form of obtaining seasoned related challenges, survived, and laughed about it. His or her help can support adults to take the subsequent developmental step. Adults want such assistance through instances of momentous adjustments of perspective, or mysterious dissatisfactions with life (Sheehy, 1976). No matter if Men and women bring these issues to the performance, or No matter if the performance exacts such disorienting dilemmas - humor can assistance Men and women course of action, heal, and progress to additional ambitions.
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