Ira Shor | |
|---|---|
 conference call, 2021 | |
| Born | (1945-06-02) June 2, 1945 South Bronx, New York, USA |
| Children | Paulo Shor |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western Philosophy |
| Critical pedagogy | |
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] In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he was an exponentcritical pedagogy. Together they co-wrote A Pedagogy for Liberation.[4]
Personal life
Shor has one son, Paulo Shor, whom he named after his main influence Paulo Freire.
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
- "Faculty Profile". College of Staten Island. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
- "Ira Shor, Faculty Bios". City University of New York.
- Dialogic & Critical Pedagogies: An Interview with Ira Shor, Dialogic Pedagogy: an International Online Journal, Vol. 5 (2017), accessed 1 March 2023
- Shor, Ira (Fall 1999). "Ira Shor - What is Critical Literacy?". Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice. 1 (4). Lesley University: 2. Archived from the original on 6 July 2017. Retrieved 14 October 2014.