CREWMEMBER HIGHLIGHT: Linda Furuto
Linda planting a tree.
Crew Profile: Linda Furuto
PVS Member Since
HOMETOWN:
Hau'ula, O'ahu
PRIMARY DUTY:
OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:
WORLDWIDE VOYAGE LEGS SAILED:
Leg 9: Auckland, Leg 20: Virginia to New York City, 2014 Sāmoa, Leg 4: Sāmoa, 2014 Tahiti
Linda has admired the deep history of Hōkūleʻa since she was in kindergarten, piecing together mini canoes from popsicle sticks and brown paper bags. She first became involved with PVS in 2007 for a voyage to Micronesia and Japan with the Education Hui. Aboard the canoe, Linda serves as an Education Specialist. On land, Linda is a professor of Mathematics Education, specializing in Ethnomathematics, at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa College of Education.
To Linda, Hōkūleʻa is not just a canoe, but a part of a 4,000 year epic history that allows us to reconnect to our common ancestry with pride in rich traditions. Hōkūleʻa represents wisdom, vision, strength, compassion and courage - which she strives for in herself as well.
To Linda, Hōkūleʻa is not just a canoe, but a part of a 4,000 year epic history that allows us to reconnect to our common ancestry with pride in rich traditions. Hōkūleʻa represents wisdom, vision, strength, compassion and courage - which she strives for in herself as well.
Linda Furuto: Related Posts
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Math That Includes Nature & Culture: A New Round of Courses for Educators
For more than a decade, UH has been developing dynamic mathematics educators through ethnomathematics training, which provides hands-on experiences such as sailing aboard PVS’s double-hulled canoes -
Voyaging is the Ultimate Ethnomathematics Laboratory
With the stars as her guide and math as her compass, a BYU alumna sails the world’s oceans to engage, empower, and educate -
First-in-the-world Ethnomathematics Program
The program was recently approved by the Hawai‘i Teachers Standards Board and added mathematics as a field. -
World’s First Ethnomathematics Program Offered at UH
The program will develop teachers as leaders to discover multiple approaches to teaching and learning mathematics through project-based and place-based experiences. Applications are open now! -
Maritime Connections
The Maritime Museum hosted the Mālama Honua Community Event for the public to support and extend the Mālama Honua Worldwide Voyage mission to locals and visitors of the Auckland area. -
Crew Blog | Linda Furuto: He Lani Ko Luna, He Honua Ko Lalo
There is an understanding that it takes both academics and an intimate relationship to place in order to really learn in this world. -
Update | March 2, 2015
Linda Furuto previews a month of educational outreach while Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia are in Auckland, Aotearoa. -
Blog | Linda Furuto: Navigating Our Educational Visions
Each of us was born for this generation and time, to step up, imagine, innovate, and hold to our visions in all kinds of weather. -
Ask the Crew | Linda Furuto: What do you do in ports that have few school children?
Keaumiki, from Ewa, Hawaii asks what crewmembers do when there are not many children when they get to port? -
Ask the Crew | Linda Furuto: Can you sing Hōkūleʻa Hula?
KC from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa asks for a special musical request and gets more than was asked. -
Ask the Crew | Linda Furuto: How does sailing shape your worldview?
Sharlene from Hauʻula asks how the awesome experience of the voyage is changing Linda.
