Ben Franklin, Quintessential American A FREE lesson your learners will always remember! A New DVD Film, Death March from Bataan to Manchuria: Raising a Survivor’s Voice Gordon Wood - The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin Why Discrepant Event Inquiry? What are America's strongest links? Teachers and Power Problem Solving. Inquiry and Democracy. by Jean K. Bruce Back to main Power Problem Solving William C. Bruce Associate Dean and Professor College of Education and Psychology Phone: (903) 566-7048 e-mail: wbruce@uttyler.edu http://www.hometreemedia.org Fax: (903) 566-7036 Free Discrepant Event, Friends The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin Gordon Wood National Constitution Center 59 min 20 sec www.constitutioncenter.org To watch it you will need the Google Video Player. Pulitzer prize-winning historian Gordon Wood leads a "Constitutional Conversation" about his new book, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do. In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very American that he is regarded by many as the first American. The problem with this beloved notion of Franklin's quintessential 'Americanness,' Gordon Wood asserts, is that it's simply not true. This is a sub page of: Why Discrepant Event Inquiry? What are America's strongest links? Teachers and Power Problem Solving. Inquiry and Democracy. by Jean K. Bruce Back to main Power Problem Solving William C. Bruce Associate Dean and Professor College of Education and Psychology Phone: (903) 566-7048 e-mail: wbruce@uttyler.edu http://www.hometreemedia.org Fax: (903) 566-7036 Free Discrepant Event, Friends Dr. William C. Bruce and Jean K. Bruce Dr. Bruce, and his wife Jean, first authored a discrepant event book entitled: Learning Social Studies Through Discrepant Event Inquiry. Go to the following URL addresses to learn more: University of Texas at Tyler, EPP University of Texas at Tyler, CPDT http://www.uttyler.edu/c_i/bruce.htm Free discrepant event lesson, 9-11 Blog: Pay Teachers More Blog: Test Scores Why Discrepant Event Inquiry? What are America's strongest links? Teachers and Power Problem Solving Inquiry and Democracy