Culturally Responsive Teaching requires a competency of understanding about Indigenous knowledges and perspectives. This presentation/yarn will explore how two-way learning and relationship to Country can underpin investigations and influence scientific thinking not only in the traditionally associated science strands of Biology and Earth Sciences but also Physics and Chemistry. Teachers will learn about Aboriginal relationship to Country and relationship to each other.  How continuous culture has been affected by colonialism and how science has authenticated Indigenous knowledges that are held in oral histories and in the very being of Country.  Teachers’ fears of failure and anxiety of doing the wrong thing around teaching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives and knowledge systems in science education will also be addressed.

Presented by Susan Price, Brewongle Environmental Education Centre, NSW Dept. of Education, 2024.