Ira Shor
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Ira Shor (born June 2, 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 PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY.[2]
Biography
Shor grew up in the working class area in the South Bronx of New York City. Shor has stated that coming from a working-class area had a powerful influence on his thinking, politics and feelings.[3]
Personal life
Shor has one son, Paulo Shor, whom he named after his main influence Paulo Freire.
Theoretical Contribution
Template:Critical pedagogy In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading exponents of critical pedagogy.[4] Together they co-wrote A Pedagogy for Liberation.[5]
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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- ↑ Dialogic & Critical Pedagogies: An Interview with Ira Shor, Dialogic Pedagogy: an International Online Journal, Vol. 5 (2017), accessed 1 March 2023
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