Humour Styles of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to Their Family Type and Streams

Abstract

Schools are making effort to ensure that their teachers are effective in every way in  subject delivery. A lot of emphasis is placed on the curriculum in secondary schools but not on the methodology of delivery of the same. The main focus of this study was to investigate the extent to which secondary school teachers’ use humour while teaching  and the effect of humour in their teaching. In this study humour Styles were treated a  dependent variable, while family type and stream were treated as independent variable.  The sample of the study consisted of 137 secondary school teachers, which were collected by  random sampling with the help of humour styles questionnaire of Martin et al. (2003). The  obtained data were analysed by using Mean, SD and the ‘t’-test. The finding of the study reported  no difference in the humour styles among secondary school teachers in relation to their family  type and stream