Title: Creating Hybrid Spaces for Talk: Humor as a Resource Learners Bring to Informal Learning Contexts.
Authors: Ash, Doris
Abstract: This chapter focuses on recognizing humor as a powerful resource for visitors from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds who are new to learning contexts, such as museums and aquariums. By using humor, visitors negotiate hybrid learning spaces, as well as gain authority in informal settings. Humor... serves a number of functions—social cohesion or rupture, the cementing of relationships... persuasion through the distraction of entertainment, and the simultaneous challenge and reinforcement of the status quo. (Moreau & Enahoro, 2012, p. 1)
Subjects: WIT & humor; NONFORMAL education; SOCIAL cohesion; PERSUASION (Psychology); AQUARIUMS; BLENDED learning
Publication: Teachers College Record, 2014, Vol 116, Issue 14, p535
ISSN: 0161-4681
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1177/016146811411601410

Creating Hybrid Spaces for Talk: Humor as a Resource Learners Bring to Informal Learning Contexts.

Ash, Doris