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Abstract

Merging the Personal and Academic for Greater Learning: A Successful Assignment As a person who grew up during the Second Women’s Rights movement and who became a member of the academic community, I developed and taught on several occasions a class called Women and Politics. The course began with a brief overview of feminist theory and went from there to a history of women’s rights in the United States, which provided a foundation for our study of the legal and policy aspects of important topics like employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and marriage and family issues. Almost immediately I realized that my students, while open to the intellectual aspects of the class, wanted to make their personal experiences a part of it as well. The essay I have written explains how I was able to create an assignment that allowed students to merge the academic and the personal, to provide opportunities for higher forms of learning and deeper understandings.

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