Escallier, Christine2018-05-222018-05-222009Pédagogie et humour: le rire comme moyen de construction d'un public attentif d'une salle de classe / Christine Escallier - In: JoLIE, journal of linguistic and intercultural education. - Alba Iulia, Roménia: Aeternitas, 2009. - ISSN 2065-6599. - Vol.2, nº 2, p. 105-114.2065-6599http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/1941Laughter is a phenomenon which achieves a conversion of the negative cline. By the effect “mirror”, humour thus acts on patterns of behaviour. In a more and more anxiogene society (i.e. anxiety producing), laughter has become a means of reducing its tensions. Can the resource to the pedagogy of humour then be one of the possible solutions to the unrest which too often reigns in a classroom? Can the teacher fight tiredness, indiscipline, even violence, anti-didactic responses and at the same time transmit knowledge while using irony and jokes? Starting from a reflexion on both social and cultural laughter, this article aims at analyzing the pedagogic dimension of humour in a paradoxical study context where humour and seriousness, flexibility and firmness, presence and distance will be together.fraPedagogyHumourClassroomTeaching laughterCultural laughterPedagogiaHumorRiso cultural.Faculdade de Artes e Humanidadesjournal article