THE LAUGHTER, SOCIAL REGULATOR OF EMOTIONAL STATES AND FIXING OF LEARNING

Edward Enrique Rojas de la Puente

doi:10.23856/3012

Edward Enrique Rojas de la Puente Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University of Amazonas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9026-1244

Keywords: didactic technique, laughter, fixation and retention.

Abstract

The following “Theoretic proposal called: the laughter as the real emotional regulator, social and fixing of learnings” this study is conclusive in three fundamental principles: the laughter is an emotional regulator, the laughter is a social regulator, the laughter is a fixing learning. This was proved with students from the Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza National University of Amazonas – Peru and groups of people in study.

The study was ethnographic-qualitative, with IAP or Participative Action Research. The methodology was based on the transactional method. We used the qualitative method. With its own qualitative categorizations of the social science. The technique were the observation and analysis. The data about the effect to arrive to those principles were collected with instruments as the structured interview, a notebook and films. I can deduce that this is a contribution to the different kinds of socio-educative disciplines and others because we get new principles mentioned in the first lines; which represents a theoretic contribution in teaching and learning.

This study is made with a test and posttest design and with fortuitous groups whose objective is appreciate the real effect of laugh. This research with a value to education, sociology and others sciences that study the human being. In conclusion: the laugh moderate the emotions, the laugh moderate the social relationship and finally the laugh is a fixer of complex learning. The following research project was made in the Awajun ethnic in Amazonas region (out in the north-eastern part of Peru).

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