Research on Young Children's Humor: Theoretical and Practical Implications for Early Childhood Educa

Preface.- 1. Young children's humor; Eleni Loizou and Susan L. Recchia.- SECTION 1: Development and Learning.- 2. Young Children's Play and Humor Development: A Close Theoretical Partnership; Doris Bergen.- 3. Humor, social laughing, and pleasure to function: Three sources of laughter that are intrinsically connected in early childhood; Elly Singer.- 4. Humor styles in younger children; Lucy Amelia James and Claire Louise Fox.- 5. The development of 3-5-year-old-children's sense of humor and the relationships among children's temperament and parents' humor style in China; Wen Liu.- SECTION 2: Teaching and Classroom.- 6. Humor in the ECE Classroom: A Neglected form of Play whose Time has Come; Paul McGhee.- 7. Children's visual and verbal humorous productions after participating in a series of creative activities and framed by the Theory of the Absurd and the Empowerment theory; Eleni Loizou and Evi K. Loizou.- 8. The Place of Humor in the Classroom; Nikolaos Chaniotakis and Magdalini Papazoglou.- 9. Cartoons as an educational tool to fight disability stereotypes; Eleni Loizou and Simoni Symeonidou.- 10: Linguistic Gymnastics: Humor and Wordplay in Children's and Adolescent Literature; Lisa Maxwell Arter.- SECTION 3: Other perspectives and Contexts.- 11. Humour as Culture in Infancy; Vasudevi Reddy.- 12. 'Let the wild rumpus start!'. Using carnival as a metaphor to highlight the pedagogical significance of young children's humor; Laura Jennings Tallant.- 13. Exploring Connections between Humor and Children's Spirituality; Jennifer Mata-McMahon.- 14. Research Connections and Implications for Practice to Further Support Young Children's Humor; Susan L. Recchia and Eleni Loizou.