Conversation #11: Humor in the Classroom
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A conversation with Dr. Regina Barreca of University of Connecticut on teaching, learning, and humor.
You can’t use humor to be liked. You have to use it to make a point. Especially for women, too often our sense of self-esteem or even, in a professional setting, our sense of accomplishment comes from, you know, do they like me? And it can’t work that way. Teaching certainly can’t function that way. It has to be: did I make this point effectively? Did they get it? And that’s very different than being liked.
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February 27th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
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