Ira Shor
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| Full name | Ira Shor |
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| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| Main interests | critical pedagogy |
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Ira Shor is a professor at the City University of New York, where he teaches composition and rhetoric. In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading exponents of critical pedagogy.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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 (1996)
- Critical Literacy in Action (1999)
- Education is Politics (1999)
[edit] References
- Shor, Ira. When Students have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. Chicago: U Chicago Press, 1996.
