Humor in Pedagogy: How Ha-Ha can Lead to Aha!

College Teaching

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 177-180

  Garner, R L ^a  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

humor; pedagogy; research

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897455674     PISSN: 87567555     EISSN: 19308299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/CTCH.54.1.177-180     Document Type: Article

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