Noemi Flores

Professor Rebecca Lawson

English 113 B
9 April 2015
Fieldwork Report
Different spaces all connect to different communities, cultures,
and sub cultures. The reason why spaces all have different sub
cultures is because a space can have huge impacts to certain people.
A space is designed a certain way to serve an issue within the space.
For example in my Chicanos Studies class 100, was a space that
thought us students about equality. A space that was build in a
classroom at California State University Northridge, Chicanos studies
100 with Cristina Ayala Alcantran represents a space where students
learned about equality, even though it was a general class, because of
the way the class was structured.
Research I have done from my space is that it is located in
Jerome Richfield class on the first floor classroom number 100. The
murals that are in the class are painted by Chicanos artist. The reason
why the artist did the murals is to show that our world is not equal and
yearns to be equal. The research I have done by the artist is that he
wanted to express his thoughts on how they treat his own race. In that
classroom they only teach Chicanos Studies classes and base them on
equality.

My observation from my space is a classroom that was

structured helped students learn in this space, it was not like a regular
class. This space had many desks for students, but the desks were in a
circle. This space helped me learn because all students can
participate. What was interesting was that Cristina (professor Ayala)
sat with us. She sat with us, so that she can learn from us and we can
learn from her. In this space this class didnt just have a chalkboard
and a white board the whole class had murals all over the class. Murals
that symbolized how Chicanos have suffered for their inequalities. The
murals also show how CSUN tuition goes up every year. The way
Christina thought the classroom was a space that we al built where we
felt confortable. We learned because we were all equal in her class
though she was a professor. The class was small, but full of students
yearning to learn. The types of people that would only like this class
would be Cristina and the students in it. Our first test in this class was
to learn every single persons name in the class because everyone
mattered. We were about 43 students, which demonstrates, how
Christina was a professor that actually cared about her students. We
did not have a midterm or final in her class, but I leaned more than I
ever had in other classes. The place was confortable because we all
knew each other, un like other classes in college. Our space was also
always hot because of how close our bodies were in the circle. The
class felt like a home and a safe environment to learn in.

The space was sometimes smelled like food because the

professor would let us eat in there. The way the classroom looked was
not like a usual class because we had no textbooks like in others. The
class just had students in a circle able to participate what they have in
their minds. The way this class looked was that the professor didnt
need text evidence like others to know we all had something to
contribute to the world. I remember the way this safe environment
looked to me was like a second home were we all believed in each
other, and not just the professor this was my observations in this
class.
Throughout your academic like you will have different classroom
spaces. What you read in the following was the space that I was in. A
space that helped us students learn in a general class about equality.