Ira Shor

Ira Shor
conference call, 2021
Born (1945-06-02) June 2, 1945
South Bronx, New York, USA
ChildrenPaulo Shor
Philosophical work
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern 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

  1. ↑ "Faculty Profile". College of Staten Island. Archived from the original on 14 June 2016. Retrieved 25 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Ira Shor, Faculty Bios". City University of New York.
  3. ↑ Dialogic & Critical Pedagogies: An Interview with Ira Shor, Dialogic Pedagogy: an International Online Journal, Vol. 5 (2017), accessed 1 March 2023
  4. ↑ 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.