Transgressive Humor in Classrooms

David Low examines the multifaceted role of humor in critical literacy studies. Talking about how teachers and students negotiate understandings of humor and social critique vis-à-vis school-based critical literacy curriculums, the book co-examines teachers' and students' understandings of humor and critique in schools.

David E. Low is an associate professor of literacy education at California State University, Fresno, USA.

Foreword Prologue: Stop Me If You've Heard This One 1. The Gremlin's Work in the World 2. Humor as a Tool for Sensemaking and Nonsense-Making: The Doubly Obligatory Chapter 3. Punching Up and Punching Down: A Sorta Conceptual Framework 4. "A Most Strange Revision": Gremlins, Transgressive Humor, and Critique in/of School 5. Fight the Power! (This Message Brought to You by the Power): Teachers, Transgressive Humor, and Framings of Critical Literacy 6. Dehumanizing Humor as a Catalyst for Institutional Reckoning 7. No Laughing Matter?: Rupturing the Solemnity of Critical Literacy Education Acknowledgments