Ira Shor
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| Ira Shor | |
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| Born | 1945 |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| School | Critical pedagogy |
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Ira Shor (born 1945) is a professor at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, where he teaches composition and rhetoric.[1] He is also doctoral faculty in the Ph.D. Program in English, at The Graduate Center, CUNY.[2] In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading exponents of critical pedagogy.[3]
Biography
Shor grew up in the working class area in the South Bronx of New York City. According to Shor coming from a working class area had a powerful influence on his thinking, politics and feelings.
Works
- Critical Teaching and Everyday Life (1980)
- Culture Wars: School and Society in the Conservative Restoration (1986)
- A Pedagogy for Liberation, with Paulo Freire (1987)
- Freire for the Classroom: A Sourcebook for Liberatory Teaching (1987)
- Empowering Education (1992)
- When Students have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy (1996)
- Critical Literacy in Action (1999)
- Education is Politics (1999)
References
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