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The purpose of this study was to examine humour from the perspectives of 60-72-month-old children and their teachers in Turkey. A phenomenological method was used to collect data through semi-structured interviews, which included each child making a drawing about something they thought was ‘funny’. Teachers were also interviewed via semi-structured questions related to children’s humour. Data collected from 22 children and five teachers were analysed using McGhee’s humour development theory and Martin’s descriptions of four humour styles. The humour produced by our sample mainly included items related to incongruity. Teachers described children’s humour development in terms of how the children behaved within their social group, and some believing that children who do not make jokes about their peers, have no humour development. Our findings pointed to a lack of awareness of the benefits of humour to the learning process and early years’ education, particularly with teachers needing to account for age, developmental level and cultural differences.

The COVID-19 virus, which has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, has affected the world in all areas. Although COVID-19 virus first showed its negative effects in the field of health, this situation also affected countries economically. Although the first COVID-19 case was seen in Turkey on March 11, 2020 the Turkish Government took a number of measures long before the appearance of cases. The number and quality of the measures taken in parallel with the increase in cases have also increased. Although the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the first day continue, each country has started to implement its own state policies in order to get through this process in the healthiest way with the new normalization steps dated June 1, 2020. With the COVID-19 pandemic process and the new normalization, Turkey has started to implement the regulations for the current working life in a controlled manner on behalf of the revival of economic and social life. In this context, four different loan packages were announced by the Ministry of Treasury and Finance for the revival of the economy. Public employees have continued to work actively since the first day of the COVID-19 pandemic. This situation raises the possibility to encounter the risk of the virus. The aim of this study is to measure the attitudes of public employees towards the pandemic during the COVID-19 pandemic process and normalization period. The sample of the study consists of 2859 personnel affiliated to the central and provincial organization of the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre. In the study, the questionnaire form was prepared on the web and the surveys were filled online. The questionnaire form was applied between the dates of 2nd-14th July 2020. The data gathered was approved by the Social and Humanities Ethics Committee of Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University, dated 26.06.2020 and numbered 4585.