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Direct linkHobday-Kusch, Jody; McVittie, Janet – Canadian Journal of Education, 2002
Using a post-structural, interpretive perspective, we studied children's humour in a grade-1 and -2 classroom. In this article, we report our observations of two boys who took on the role of "class clown." The boys used humour to negotiate power, which we defined as participation in discourse, taking on the role of class clowns and…
Descriptors: Males, Grade 1, Grade 2, Humor
