Ira Shor (born June 2, 1945) is a professor at the

College of Staten Island The College of Staten Island (CSI) is a public university in Staten Island, New York. It is one of the 11 four-year senior colleges within the City University of New York system. Programs in the liberal arts and sciences and professional studie ...

, City University of New York, where he teaches composition and rhetoric. He is also doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in English, at The Graduate Center, CUNY.

Biography

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.

Personal life

Shor has one son, Paulo Shor, whom he named after his main influence

Paulo Freire Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work '' Pedagogy of the Oppressed'' is generally considered one of the found ...

Theoretical Contribution

In collaboration with

, he has been one of the leading exponents of

critical pedagogy Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that developed and applied concepts from critical theory and related traditions to the field of education and the study of culture. It insists that issues of social justice and de ...

. 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

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