Empowering Education: Critical Teaching for Social Change
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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 learning. This book shows how students can develop as critical thinkers, inspired learners, skilled workers, and involved citizens. Shor carefully analyzes obstacles to and resources for empowering education, suggesting ways for teachers to transform traditional approaches into critical and democratic ones. He offers many examples and applications for the elementary grades through college and adult education.
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"
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Excellent Course Material
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
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
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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.
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