Linda Buturian is in her 20th year at the University of Minnesota, where she designs and teaches courses informed by interdisciplinary perspectives, in order to foster creative approaches to learning about social justice issues. She is a Senior Teaching Specialist in the Department of Curriculum & Instruction in the College of Education and Human Development. Linda’s research interests include climate literacy in youth, the intersections of race and gender in environmental justice, and the role of multimodal narratives in participating in social action. Buturian is the author of World Gone Beautiful: Life Along the Rum River (2008) and The Changing Story: digital stories that participate in transforming teaching and learning (2016).
Upcoming: Chapter “Listen, there, to the way the real world thinks in Me.” - Cultivating an empathic imagination to support students’ visual stories that address the climate crisis. Youth Creating Media on the Climate Change Crisis: Hear Our Voices. Blaine E. Smith & Richard Beach, Editors. Routledge Press, June 2023.
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