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‘School is their whole world’: Teachers' perspectives on loneliness among children and adolescents from England and mainland China

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract As front‐line observers and active participants in pupils' daily lives, teachers closely monitor pupils' social interactions, emotional states and behavioural changes. Their unique perspective enables them to detect problems in the social lives of their pupils that may not be immediately visible to peers, parents or mental health professionals.
Yixuan Zheng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laughter as a 'serious business' : clients’ laughter in prenatal screening for Down’s syndrome [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter examines the use of laughter in the context of prenatal screening (PS) for Down’s syndrome in Hong Kong. Scholars interested in humor typically approach laughter as a phenomenon that accompanies funny, amusing, and humorous situations.
Schnurr, Stephanie, Zayts, Olga
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Relationship between client laughter and session outcomes in metaverse counseling

open access: yesBMC Psychology
Considering the growing interest in VR psychotherapy, this study investigated the relationship between client laughter and session outcomes in metaverse counseling. To investigate the relationships between types of client laughter and session outcomes in
Jieun Kang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does laughing have a stress-buffering effect in daily life? An intensive longitudinal study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Positive affect is associated with alleviating mental and physiological stress responses. As laughter is a common physiological operationalization of positive affect, we investigated whether the effects of experiencing a stressful event on stress ...
Thea Zander-Schellenberg   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Insular cortex activity and the evocation of laughter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The insular cortex is fundamentally involved in the processing of interoceptive information. It has been postulated that the integrative monitoring of the bodily responses to environmental stimuli is crucial for the recognition and experience of emotions.
Celio, Marco R.   +4 more
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Listening and Making Beats With the Birds: An Outdoor Music‐Based Toolkit for Youth Engagement and Conservation Technologies

open access: yesThe Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, EarlyView.
Abstract Biodiversity loss and unequal access to nature limit both ecological knowledge and opportunities for experiential learning. Here I present a portable, power outlet–independent educational toolkit that integrates AI‐assisted bird detection (Haikubox, BirdNET‐Pi, Merlin Bird ID) with off‐the‐shelf sound‐recording and music‐creation hardware ...
Diego Ellis‐Soto
wiley   +1 more source

HILDA HILST’S LAUGHTER AND LITERATURE: "THE SPIRAL HAS NO BEGINNING OR END"

open access: yesGragoatá, 2015
This article aims at discussing the category laughter as an attribute of Hilda Hilst’s literature. Process-effect, glimpse of a writing that places no beginning or end, because of the (dis)order of laughter in continuous and incessant scales, cyclical ...
Jo A-mi
doaj  

Laughter in Middle-earth: Humour in and around the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (2016) edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F. Mann [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Book review of Laughter in Middle-earth (2016), edited by Thomas Honegger and Maureen F ...
Houghton, John Wm.
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Laughter as immanent life-affirmation. Reconsidering the educational value of laughter through a Bakthinian lense. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article I try to conceive a new approach towards laughter in the context of formal schooling. I focus on laughter in so far as it is a bodily response during which we are entirely delivered to uncontrollable, spasmodic reactions.
Vlieghe, Joris
core   +2 more sources

Controlling the Field: Memory, Labor, and Ethics in Oral Histories of Brazilian Human Genetics

open access: yesBerichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, EarlyView.
This article examines how oral histories of twentieth‐century human genetics in Brazil reveal the politics of memory of fieldwork. Through a comparative analysis of interviews with prominent geneticist Francisco M. Salzano and technician Girley V. Simões, who worked with him for most of his career, this study explores the narrative strategies each ...
Rosanna Dent   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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