Ira Shor

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Region Western Philosophy Name Ira Shor		Influenced by Paulo Freire Era 20th-century philosophy


Education University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Education (1971) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada Books Empowering Education: Critical T, A Pedagogy for Libera, When Students Have Po, Critical teaching and every, Freire for the Classroom Similar People Paulo Freire, Henry Giroux, Joe L Kincheloe, Shirley R Steinberg, Bell Hooks

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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. He is also doctoral faculty in the Ph.D. Program in English, at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Biography

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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.

Theoretical Contribution

In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading exponents of critical pedagogy. Together they cowrote A Pedagogy for Liberation.

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

Ira Shor Wikipedia

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