Ira Shor

Ira Shor
conference call , 2021
Born	(1945-06-02) June 2, 1945 (age 79) South Bronx, New York, USA
Children	Paulo Shor
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	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]

Personal life

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

Theoretical Contribution

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

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. "Ira Shor - What is Critical Literacy?". Lesley University. Fall 1999.
5. "Author Bio: Ira Shor". www.heinemann.com. Retrieved 22 November 2016.