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Laughing Out Loud: Humor Usage In Young Childhood Classrooms, Mary Frances Rossi
Laughing Out Loud: Humor Usage In Young Childhood Classrooms, Mary Frances Rossi
Honors Theses and Capstones
The purpose of this honors thesis is to document the types of humorous occurrences among 2-3-yearold children and then to describe the relationship between children’s humor during circle time and teacher-child interactions, noting how teachers respond to these humorous occurrences. I conducted my observations at the Child Study Development Center in the Nursery II classroom, which included one head teacher and 19 children. I audiotaped and photographed my observations and took notes on two tables. One table included recording linguistic humor and non-linguistic humor occurrences, or humor involving words and humor involving movement, and the other table included teacher responses …