When Students Have Power: Negotiating Authority in a Critical Pedagogy

by Ira Shor

Book Overview

What happens when teachers share power with students? In this profound book, Ira Shor--the inventor of critical pedagogy in the United States--relates the story of an experiment that nearly went out of control.

Shor provides the reader with a reenactment of one semester that shows what really can happen when one applies the theory and democratizes the classroom. This is the story of one class in which Shor tried to fully share with his students...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226753557
• ISBN13: 9780226753553
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"