interested in following a career path relevant to the field of social justice? the department of social justice education, at the ontario institute for studies in education – university of toronto, would like to invite you to attend one of two upcoming virtual master of education open house events.

event dates and times: 

session one - saturday march 6^th 2021 – 9:30am to 10:30am
session two – saturday march 6^th 2021 – 10:45am to 11:45am

click here for a pdf version of the 2-paged poster with the embedded links. 

the department of indigenous learning is offering "métis way of life"

course code: indi- 3110-fde (web based)

class dates: september 8, 2020 to december 7, 2020.
instructor: bryanna scott

course summary: in this course, we will explore and understand the historical and contemporary metis way of life. the objectives of the course are to introduce the distinct characteristics of metis culture including food, clothing, language, technology, music, dance, traditional values, family and community. 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 will have the opportunity to learn about the origins of metis culture and the distinct contributions the metis culture brings to canada.

this course uses the podcasts, memes, blogs, artistic creations, and other web-based productions of indigenous scholars to form the basis of an exploration into the concepts and critiques central to the field of indigenous studies. drawing on the podcasts of ryan mcmahon and rick harp, the twitter tutorials of kim tallbear, the blog entry essays of chelsea vowel, and the memes of arnell tailfeathers, the course asks 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to imagine what decolonization looks like in the digital space and how this online work might translate into more material realms. in addition to online content, the course will introduce 世界杯2022赛程表淘汰赛 to indigenous scholarship theorizing issues of absence/presence, storytelling, and futurity.

this course will run online july 2, 2020 to august 13, 2020. the instructor is dr. travis hay.

a comparative overview of the experience of indigenous peoples; the north american experience compared to the contrasting life experiences of indigenous peoples in australia, russia and the scandinavian countries. issues considered will include traditional cultures and government policies.

this course will run online may 1st, 2020 to july 27th, 2020. the instructor is dr. julee boan.

this course examines definitions of "race" and racism, and explores different ways of theorizing their relationship to law, criminal justice, and settler colonialism. the course uses empirical cases in policing, sentencing, corrections, border control, and policy-making in order to explore the particular dynamics of race, the law, and criminal justice in canada.

this course will run online may 1st, 2020 to june 15th, 2020. the instructor is dr. angie wong.

dr. kim anderson is an associate professor in the department of family relations and applied nutrition at the university of guelph.

as an indigenous (métis) scholar, she has spent her career working to improve the health and well-being of indigenous families in canada. much of her research is community partnered and has involved gender and indigeneity, urban indigenous knowledge, indigenous masculinities, and indigenous feminism.

her single-authored books include a recognition of being: reconstructing native womanhood (2nd edition, canadian scholars, 2016) and life stages and native women: memory, teachings and story medicine (university of manitoba press, 2011).

recent co-edited books include indigenous men and masculinities:  legacies,  identities,  regeneration (with robert alexander innes, university of manitoba press, 2015), and mothers of the nations: indigenous mothering as global resistance, reclaiming and recovery (with dawn lavell-harvard, 2014).

join rene meshake and dr. kim anderson for the launch of their book, injichaag: my soul in story on november 8th, 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm at the study coffeehouse, 阿根廷vs墨西哥竞猜 .

authors rene meshake an accomplished anishinaabe storyteller and artist and dr. kim anderson a distinguished cree/métis scholar will be joining us to share and discuss excerpts from their book, injichaag: my soul in story.

meshake was born in the railway town of nakina in northwestern ontario in 1948, and spent his early years living off-reserve with his grandmother in a matriarchal land-based community he calls pagwashing. he was raised through his grandmother’s “bush university,” periodically attending indian day school, but at the age of ten rene was scooped into the indian residential school system, where he suffered sexual abuse as well as the loss of language and connection to family and community.

this residential school experience was lifechanging, as it suffocated his artistic expression and resulted in decades of struggle and healing. now in his twenty-eighth year of sobriety, rene is a successful multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer. meshake’s artistic vision and poetic lens provide a unique telling of a story of colonization and recovery.

the material is organized thematically around a series of meshake’s paintings. it is framed by kim anderson, rene’s odaanisan (adopted daughter), a scholar of oral history who has worked with meshake for two decades. full of teachings that give a glimpse of traditional anishinaabek lifeways and worldviews, injichaag: my soul in story is “more than a memoir.”

light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

this event is sponsored by the office of aboriginal initiatives, the departments of indigenous learning, sociology, and visual arts, and the reimagining value action lab (rival).

about the authors

rene meshake is an anishinaabe elder, visual and performing artist, award-winning author, storyteller, flute player, new media artist and a recipient of queen elizabeth ii’s diamond jubilee medal.

kim anderson is a cree/métis writer, a canada research chair in indigenous relationships, and an associate professor in the department of family relations and applied nutrition at the university of guelph. she has published six books, including life stages and native women: memory, teachings and story medicine and indigenous men and masculinities: legacies, identities, regeneration.

dr. kim anderson is an associate professor in the department of family relations and applied nutrition at the university of guelph.

as an indigenous (métis) scholar, she has spent her career working to improve the health and well-being of indigenous families in canada. much of her re- search is community partnered and has involved gender and indigeneity, urban indigenous knowledge, indigenous masculinities, and indigenous feminism.

her single-authored books include a recognition of being: reconstructing native womanhood (2nd edition, canadian scholars, 2016) and life stages and native women: memory, teachings and story medicine (university of manitoba press, 2011).

recent co-edited books include indigenous men and masculinities:  legacies,  identities,  regeneration (with robert alexander innes, university of manitoba press, 2015), and mothers of the nations: indigenous mothering as global resistance, re- claiming and recovery (with dawn lavell-harvard, 2014).