Willow Samara Allen

Royal Roads University | RRU · School of Education and Technology

Settlement workers in schools (SWIS) provide a range of services that contribute to positive educational outcomes for newcomer students, yet they are an under-researched group of professionals. The need for settlement worker support increased as newcomer students navigated the impacts of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. This research report pre...

Although more white women live, love, and mother in multiracial contexts, there remains limited scholarship on them, particularly what role they can play in antiracism efforts. In this article, I consider what antiracist mothering means to white women in multiracial families, and how they practice antiracist mothering in their lives. I draw on data...

White women have occupied a distinct position in histories of White supremacy. With the rise of White supremacist discourses in this current epoch, I posit now is a critical time to examine how White women can bear witness to their Whiteness and to ask what role they want to play in creating a more equitable future. I take up these considerations b...

This piece particularizes the subjectivities and experiences of white Euro-Canadian women to understand how they become implicated in relationships and systems of power that sustain the settler colonial state. This examination is driven by assertions from settler colonial scholars to explore the ‘everydayness' of settler colonialism, efforts by cri...

We live in a period of uncertainty characterized by climate change, the rise of populism, mass migration across borders, and severe economic, political and social inequities. To understand how these realities impact ourselves and each other, and what we can do about them, this book creates a third space for scholars, activists and practitioners acr...

This how-to guide offers new and seasoned researchers alike an introduction to cultivating anti-oppressive educational and social science research skills through a focused engagement with language and its use in our own and others’ research. By illustrating the impact of how we use language in all aspects of the research process—from research quest...

Appreciative inquiry is an action research methodology focused on revealing an organization’s positive core. As a cross-racial team of antiracist researchers, we were drawn to appreciative inquiry due to its congruences with community-based research perspectives on power-sharing and co-constructing knowledge. Our collaborative reflexivity brought u...

What does it mean to intervene in antiracist interviews with public sector workers? What do interventions look like in research seeking to name complicity in settler colonial violence and imagine otherwise relationships between non-Indigenous and Indigenous people? How might we methodologically define interventions and their pedagogical purpose(s)?...

In this piece, I trace the historicity of white women's evocation of learned patterns of white settler womanhood. Drawing on an encounter of harm in which I was complicit, as well as research, I contend that in a white settler society rushing to reconcile and foreclose a past that's ongoing, white women, including myself, must bring to bear acts of...

In this piece, we ask, what are the risks of a pedagogy and politics that begins and ends with privilege? What does it mean to declare privilege when embedded in institutions of the settler colonial state? These questions are raised through an ongoing project where we interview provincial public sector workers on Treaty 6, 7 and 8 (Alberta, Canada)...

Academic project designs and methods: From professional development to critical and creative practice is the first textbook of its kind to address an important element or shift in fields such as education, arts, social sciences, and humanities. For many years, university professional and non-professional programmes have been moving away from an exc...

For newcomer students, inequities exacerbated by COVID-19, including racism, unfold within their educational landscapes. School settlement workers perform a critical role in newcomer students' educational trajectories. COVID-19 has intensified the importance of school settlement work, yet school settlement workers remain an under-researched and und...

We live in a period of uncertainty characterized by climate crisis, mass migration across borders, the rise of populism and xenophobia, and deepening economic, political and social inequities (Brodie, 2018). To understand how these realities impact ourselves, each other and our planet, and what we can do about them, this book will create a “third s...