The Clemente Course in the Humanities and critical pedagogy : a comparative analysis of Earl Shorris and bell hooks on poverty, racism, imperialism and patriarchy

• Main Author: Trowbridge, Terry
• Other Authors: Social Justice and Equity Studies Program
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Brock University 2010
• Subjects: Poor > Education; Poor children > Education; Economic assistance; Domestic; Poor > Political activity; Canada; Mayan; Yup'ik
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10464/2955

The Clemente Course in the Humanities is an anti-poverty intervention for adults who self-identity as "poor" and humanities instructors. The course was created in 1995 by journalist Earl Shorris, who based the curriculum on a Socratic method of pedagogy and the "great books" cano...