Empowering Education Critical Teaching for Social Change

Name: Empowering Education Critical Teaching for Social Change
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780226753577

ISBN-10: 0226753573

ISBN-13: 9780226753577

Edition: 1992

Authors: Ira Shor

List price: $33.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Semester Rental: $19.09 Due date: 8/13/2024

Rental notice: supplementary materials (access codes, CDs, etc.) are not guaranteed with rental orders.

Buy used: $7.80

Buy new: $33.75

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.41

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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 matter and for self and social change. It takes shape as a dialogue in which teachers and students mutually investigate everyday themes, social issues, and academic knowledge. Through dialogue and problem-posing, students become active agents of their…

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 294
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction


The First Day of Class: Passing the Test



Education Is Politics: An Agenda for Empowerment



Problem-Posing: Situated and Multicultural Learning



Three Roads to Critical Thought: Generative, Topical, and Academic Themes



Critical Dialogue versus Teacher-Talk: Classroom Discourse and Social Inequality



Rethinking Knowledge and Society: "Desocialization" and "Critical Consciousness"



Democratic Authority: Resistance, Subject Matter, and the Learning Process



Critical Teaching and Classroom Research: An Interdisciplinary Field for Activist Learning



Becoming an Empowering Educator: Obstacles to and Resources for Critical Teaching



"The Third Idiom": Inventing a Transformative Discourse for Education


References


Author Index


Subject Index