Teacher’ use of humor, self‐disclosure, and narrative activity as a function of experience

Instructor Privacy Management in the Classroom: Exploring Instructors’ Ineffective Communication and Student Communication Satisfaction

“…Javidi and Long (1989) reported that instructors typically disclose about their educational background, previous experiences, family, friends, colleagues, beliefs, opinions, leisure activities, and personal problems, which students deemed as appropriate for the classroom context (Nunziata, 2007). Following CPM and student expectations for appropriate boundary management in the classroom, appropriate instructor disclosures should be relevant to course material.…”

Humor in university teaching: role of teachers’ achievement goals and self-efficacy for their use of content-related humor

“…In synopsis, they indicate that men tend to use more humor (Bryant et al 1979;Sev'er and Ungar 1997), and the humor used by women is often more content-related (Bryant et al 1979). Moreover, the more teaching experience they have, the more teachers seem to use humor (particularly more content-related humor; Javidi and Long's 1989).…”

Can We Teach Without Communicating?

“…Some developmental factors also appear to be involved in the use of humor in college teaching. Javidi and Long (1989) discovered that inexperienced teachers use less humor than experienced teachers. Their finding may be helpful to faculty who work with teaching assistants and other novice educators.…”