The Little Book of Laughter: Using humour as a tool to enagage and motivate all learners

by Dave Keeling

Overview

There are physical, social and mental benefits that humour can bring to the learning environment - benefits such as creating openness, bravery, teamwork, imagination and creativity and, most of all, improving relationships between students and teachers. This book includes a brief history of laughter, gives you the rules of Funny and explains why having a laugh should be in your job description. Included are exercises to encourage laughter and techniques that will create an environment that is linked to encouraging and improving learning as well as a whole load of comical comments, quotes and, of course, gags.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781350430
Publisher:	Independent Thinking Press
Publication date:	11/29/2012
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	128
File size:	335 KB

About the Author

Dave Keeling has been a professional actor for 10 years and a 'stand-up' educationalist for 8 years working the length and breadth of the country with teachers, pupils and parents. Stephanie Davies is recognised as one of the UK's leading voices in the psychology of laughter and humour. She has over ten years' experience of developing interventions that have been applied in a wide variety of settings dealing with complex public and mental health issues and building teams in high profile organisations.