Making sense of humour
Dr. Jay Brinker
As a lecturer, I have a context driven degree of power
over my students – I can pass or fail them on a whim. If
I don’t like them, they are doomed. If they don’t agree
with everything I say and laugh at all of my jokes, they
are cactus. Well, at least this is how the students see it.
The truth is, tutors do the marking, committees scrutinize
grades, and in a class of 300 I p