Estudio exploratorio sobre la utilización del humor en el proceso de enseñanza aprendizaje universitario/ Exploratory study on the use of humor at the university teaching‐learning process

• Main Author: Emilio Alberto Ortiz Torres
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: University of Camaguey 2018-07-01
• Series: Transformación
• Subjects: Teacher qualifications; teacher attitude; affectivity; higher education.
• Online Access: https://revistas.reduc.edu.cu/index.php/transformacion/article/view/2323/2194

This article explores the use of humor at the university teaching‐learning process. A questionnaire was given to 42 university instructors from different departments. To collect information about sex, university teaching experience, use of humor in the classroom, benefits or difficulties faced, prior training on the topic, and a brief description of some valuable experience. The development of the sense of humor in these teachers, as a personal quality, was also evaluated through the Multidimensional Sense of Humor Scale (MSHS) of Thorson, Powell, Sarmany‐Schuller and Hampes and validated for Spanish speakers by Carbelo. The findings corroborate of contributions of different researchers in other social and cultural contexts; reflect the valuable experiences of Cuban teachers in the use of humor as a didactic resource in an empirical and intuitive way, but effectively. The development of the sense of humor as a personal quality at different levels of development was also found in teachers, as potential to improve and systematize the use of this didactic resource.