No pierden el humor: Post-disaster humor in Mexico

The formal study of humor in education is commonly centred around its therapeutic impact or as educational tool to bring about positive learning outcomes. Rarely is humor understood as a lens through which people might learn. In this research, I advance the idea that humor has great pedagogic potential that people might use to create meaning of and in natural disasters.
This understanding of meaning-making is grounded in a view that knowledge can be acquired in non-formal ways through collaborative and innovative engagement. For this project, a four-week online, non-formal activity is planned at CUAED in Mexico City. Students are invited to explore humor production as a cultural expression in the Mexican context and to connect it to disasters such as the 2017 earthquakes. Research data will be gathered through informal interviews with students and through analyzing their collections of humor. TO BE CONT’D

Faculty Supervisor:

Shauna Butterwick

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Partner:

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Education

University:

The University of British Columbia

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