Critical Teaching and Everyday Life / Edition 1

by Ira Shor

Overview

In this unique book on education, Shor develops teaching theory side-by-side with a political analysis of schooling. Drawing on the work of Paulo Freire, he offers the first practical and theoretical guide to Freirean methods for American classrooms. Central to his method is a commitment to learning through dialogue and to exploring themes from everyday life. He poses alienation and mass culture as key obstacles to learning, and establishes critical literacy as a foundation for studying any subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226753584
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	04/15/1987
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	286
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Ira Shor, an English professor at Staten Island College, City University of New York, has been teaching and writing about education for fifteen years.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One - Problematic Schooling
1. The Working Class Goes to College
2. Interferences to Critical Thought: Consciousness in School and Daily Life
Part Two - Reconstructed Learning
3. Extraordinarily Re-experiencing the Ordinary: Theory of Critical Teaching
4. Monday Morning: Critical Literacy and the Themes of "Work"
5. Learning How to Learn: Conceptual Thought in a Utopia Course
6. Social Inquiry: Daily Life and Language Projects
7. Questioning Sexism: Poetry and Marriage Contracts
8. Culture Against Itself: Reflection Through Drama
Conclusion: Critical Teaching and a Liberatory Future