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Tannenbaum, Aron. "Culminating Experience: Writing the Political Autobiography" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference, Renaissance Hotel, Washington, DC, Feb 18, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p101389_index.html>

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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: This presentation addresses the undergraduate capstone course in political science and proposes a course in which students acquire greater political self-knowledge by means of writing their political autobiographies. The autobiographies must address three questions (with apologies to Paul Gauguin): �Where have I come from, politically speaking? Who am I, politically speaking? And where am I going (do I want to go), politically speaking?� Several criteria by which a political autobiography can be constructed are discussed. One criterion is political culture (largely from Elazar�s conceptualization). Another is trends and forces in regional (in this case, Southern) and national politics that shape the students� political lives. Students also informally interview parents and grandparents. There is discussion of some typical difficulties that students encounter in constructing their political autobiographies.

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