HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERCEPTİON OF LITERATURE TEACHERS’ HUMOR BEHAVIORS AND EMPATHIC CLASSROOM ATMOSPHERE PERCEPTIONS

Abstract

It is aimed in this study to specify the relationships between high school students' perceptions of literature teachers' humor behaviors and perceptions of empathetic classroom atmosphere. The population of the research comprises of pupils studying at Anatolian and Science high schools in Bursa/Osmangazi in 2021-2022 school year. 943 students studying in graded of 9, 10 and 11 have been selected by random sampling method. The data collection tools are personal information form, human behaviors scale and Empathetic Classroom Atmosphere Attitude Scale. According to the results students tend to perceive the humor behaviors of literature teachers more approvingly. The students in grade 9 perceive human behaviors of teachers less approving and more rejecting and non-humorous humor behaviors than that of in grades of 10 and 11. It has been concluded that although the perceptions of empathetic classroom atmosphere were not very high, they perceived empathetic and positive. When the relationships between high school students' literature teachers' perceptions of humor behaviors and the empathic classroom atmosphere in literature class were examined, positive significant relationships were found between affirmative and productive-social humor behaviors, which are positive humor behaviors and empathetic classroom atmosphere subscales. Negatively significant relationships were determined between sarcastic, rejecting and non-humorous humor behaviors and empathetic classroom atmosphere subscales.

Keywords

• teachers’ humor behaviors
• classroom atmosphere
• empathic classroom atmosphere.