Hui 'Ekolu is a three-year public librarian professional development program in Hawai'i, asking a central question: What is a Hawaiian library? Based on a theoretical framework synthesizing the ideals of "research is ceremony," (Wilson, 2008), affective knowledge (Schiele, 2002), and triangulation as meaning (Aluli-Meyer, 2006), the project enacts a practice-based methodology to gather various data such as field notes, memos, trainings, site visits, interviews, images, and online communications to seek meaning. This workshop will share three qualitative data samples to engage in discussion that may reveal vital considerations for an emerging model for public librarian professional development.

On August 5, 2019, the newly re-elected Indian government abrogated Article 370 in the Indian constitution, purported as an effort to ‘unify the nation’. However it is argued as a settler colonial project aimed at diluting the Muslim majority to one that has a Hindu majority. This workshop uses data from a grade 8 biology lesson in South India. Informed by feminist materialist and Indigenous frameworks, the data session will use discourse analysis and micro-analytic interaction analysis methods to investigate how science phenomena in classroom settings emerge in ways that reify settler colonial agendas of nation states.