Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change

by Ira Shor

Book Overview

Ira Shor is a pioneer in the field of critical education who for over twenty years has been experimenting with learning methods. His work creatively adapts the ideas of Brazilian educator Paulo Freire for North American classrooms. In Empowering Education Shor offers a comprehensive theory and practice for critical pedagogy.

For Shor, empowering education is a student-centered, critical and democratic pedagogy for studying any subject...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226753573
• ISBN13: 9780226753577
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Course Material

Read during a course. Wonderful to discuss and chew over. The class was tough, but I thoroughly enjoyed the material.

This is book is the real educational reform

Professor Ira Shor, like his mentor Paulo Freire, denounces the current-traditional model of banking education--the practice of teaching where the instructor "deposits" information "into" the students. In the current-traditional model, the input is always selected by the authority, or teacher, and the student is a passive recipient of knowledge which has been preselected as both meaningful and useful for the student's future development. Professor Shor argues that this current-traditional model of teaching methodology not only places the "content" of the course beyond any control of the student, but it also prescibes the method of delivery for our students. I recommend the book to teachers and parents: we need empowered children and citizens.