From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ira Shor
Ira Shor
Ira Shor working class area had a powerful influence on his think-
ing, politics and feelings.
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)
Full name Ira Shor • Education is Politics (1999)
Era 20th-century philosophy
Region Western Philosophy
References
• Shor, Ira. When Students have Power: Negotiating
Main interests critical pedagogy
Authority in a Critical Pedagogy. Chicago: U Chicago
Influenced by Press, 1996.
• Paulo Freire
Persondata
Ira Shor is a professor at the City University of New York, Name Shor, Ira
where he teaches composition and rhetoric. In collabora- Alternative names
tion with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading ex- Short description
ponents of critical pedagogy.
Date of birth
Place of birth
Biography
Date of death
Shor grew up in the working class area in the South
Place of death
Bronx of New York City. According to Shor coming from a
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Categories:
• American educationists
• Living people
• Critical pedagogy
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