The Enwayaang Institute is an emerging professional learning centre that will employ both Western and Indigenous ways of learning to offer knowledge and skills identified by local Indigenous communities, organizations and professionals. "Enwayaang" is an Anishinaabemowin word meaning, "the way we speak together". The Enwayaang Institute will provide experiential, foundational knowledge for communities, organizations and professionals whose work affects Indigenous-settler Canadian relations, interactions and services.
Initiated in 2018 as part of the Chanie Wenjack School for Indigenous Studies, Enwayaang Institute will grow in many directions. It will offer short weekend courses, longer educational programs on a weekly or seasonal basis, workshops, and combined in-person and online modules. Our goal is to foster conversations and deeper understanding among different disciplines, perspectives, knowledge systems, and methods of inquiry. In collaboration with diverse groups looking for training and learning, we will be able to develop creative, co-designed custom programs in appropriate formats, offering accredited or non-accredited learning courses. Our instructors will include Indigenous Elders, skilled Indigenous trainers, non-Indigenous colleagues and other professionals with particular kinds of expertise to complement our core competency in Indigenous studies and Indigenous knowledge. Where appropriate, we will also seek partnerships and collaborations with other communities, individuals and organizations that provide educational opportunities.
Meet the Director Director of the Enwayaang Professional Learning Institute
Dr. Kevin Fitzmaurice, Associate Professor
As an ally scholar, Dr. Kevin Fitzmaurice is a Co-Investigator and National Steering Committee Member with the 'A Safe and Affordable Place to Call Home: A Multi-disciplinary Longitudinal Outcomes Analysis of the National Housing Strategy' and an Ontario Regional Co-Director with the 'Urban Aboriginal Knowledge Network (UAKN)'. He is also a Co-Investigator with the 'Making the Shift: Youth Homelessness Innovation Lab (Sudbury/Timmins)' and the 'Maamwizing Indigenous Research Institute / Race Gender Diversity Initiative'.
His areas of teaching and research specialization include Urban Indigenous Studies, Housing and Homelessness, Indigenous-Settler Politics and Law, Indigenous Critical Theory, and Indigenous Research Methods.
Meet the Faculty
David Newhouse, Full Professor
Jack Hoggarth, Assistant Professor
