Ira Shor
{{Short description|American philosopher and academic}}
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{{Infobox philosopher
| region = Western Philosophy
| era = 20th-century philosophy
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| caption = conference call , 2021
| name = Ira Shor
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1945|06|2}}
| birth_place = South Bronx, New York, USA
| school_tradition = Critical pedagogy
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| influences = Paulo Freire
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| children = Paulo Shor
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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.{{cite web|title=Faculty Profile|url=http://www.csi.cuny.edu/faculty/SHOR_IRA.html|publisher=College of Staten Island|access-date=25 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160614125825/http://www.csi.cuny.edu/faculty/SHOR_IRA.html|archive-date=14 June 2016|url-status=dead}} He is also doctoral faculty in the PhD Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY.{{cite web|title=Ira Shor, Faculty Bios|url=http://www.gc.cuny.edu/Page-Elements/Academics-Research-Centers-Initiatives/Doctoral-Programs/English/Faculty-Bios/Ira-Shor|publisher=City University of New York}}
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.[https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1147791.pdf Dialogic & Critical Pedagogies: An Interview with Ira Shor], Dialogic Pedagogy: an International Online Journal, Vol. 5 (2017), accessed 1 March 2023
Personal life
Shor has one son, Paulo Shor, whom he named after his main influence Paulo Freire.
Theoretical Contribution
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In collaboration with Paulo Freire, he has been one of the leading exponents of critical pedagogy.{{cite journal|url=http://www.lesley.edu/journal-pedagogy-pluralism-practice/ira-shor/critical-literacy/|title=Ira Shor - What is Critical Literacy?|journal=Journal of Pedagogy, Pluralism, and Practice |date=Fall 1999|volume=1 |issue=4 |page=2 |publisher=Lesley University |last1=Shor |first1=Ira }} Together they co-wrote A Pedagogy for Liberation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.heinemann.com/authors/55.aspx|title=Author Bio: Ira Shor|website=www.heinemann.com|access-date=2016-11-22}}
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)
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Category:American educational theorists
Category:Critical pedagogy scholars
Category:College of Staten Island faculty
Category:People from the Bronx
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