Throughout the course of this semester I have really enjoyed reading Christensen, and have really liked her various thoughts and assignments. However, this chapter in particular was a bit difficult for me to finish to be completely honest. I like the idea of teaching students about where one another comes from, the diversity that is present and how despite the differences we have we can gain insight from one another. However, I felt that this research project in the typical classroom would be a mess and that most people would half ass it, and that to use a great amount of class time for such a project would just be asking students to slack off. Maybe my opinion is biased based on my high school experience, and how often when we were given extensive times to research most of us didn’t use class time wisely and rather used it to talk to our neighbors, surf the web and so on and so forth.
Christensen made a statement that “As a social justice educator, I consistently ask ‘whose voices are left out of our curriculum? Whose stories are buried?” I think this quote is wonderful and it is important to introduce things into our curriculum through writing and literature that do focus on various ethnicities and background. However, I feel that Christensen’s intense research presentations would not prove to be as astounding in the typical classroom. Specifically in a class that is not nearly as diverse as her classroom that she manages to have based on her location. Overall I think it is essential to find ways to incorporate multicultural literature and history into our class, but I don’t necessarily think her immigration project would prove to be a huge success. Maybe I’m just being a negative Nancy?
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