This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition. An introduction, designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, is followed by chapters addressing teacher professionalism and the rise of "multiple literacies"; empirical research; longitudinal studies; case studies; ethnography; teacher research; teacher inquiry into literacy, social justice, and power; synthesis research; fictive representation; and contemporary methodological issues and future direction in research on the teaching of English. Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts is well-suited for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level literacy research methods courses.

This text makes available in a concise format the chapters comprising the research methodology section of the Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts, Second Edition. An introduction, designed to give K-12 teachers an understanding of the basic categories and functions of research in teaching, and is followed by chapters addressing teacher professionalism and the rise of multiple literacies; empirical research; longitudinal studies; case studies; ethnography; teacher research; teacher inquiry into literacy, social justice, and power; synthesis research; fictive representation; and contemporary methodological issues and future direction in research on the teaching of English. Methods of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts is well-suited for use in upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level literacy research methods courses.

Julie Jensen McDonald talks about growing up Danish, a brief history of Denmark, royalty, the lure of the north, immigration to America, common Danish names, the Museum of Danish America, a heritage tour, (Elk Horn and Kimballtown, Iowa), Grand View University, Old World Wisconsin, Lake of the Woods, Danebod, Solvang, California, The happy and holy Danes, Danish needlework, the legend of the Queen Dagmar, Greenland, the far-away Faeroes, the Virgin Islands, visiting Denmark, Legoland, trolls, holidays in Denmark, porcelain, a fairy tale life, the story of the Little Mermaid, Out of Africa: The Baroness, Out of Isaac Dinesen, Shakespeare, the Danish Ballet, Christmas, Danish Folk dancing, heritage fests and costumes, the Dagmar cross, food, glorious food, and many Danish recipes.