Monash University’s, Faculty of Education invite you to listen to a podcast with Science Education researcher, Sara Tolbert from Whare Wānanga o Waitaha University of Canterbury, NZ). Sara talks about her work in supporting Indigenous knowledge and place-based learning in school, feminist approaches to teaching as care-work, and what we can learn from the classroom ritual of dissecting animals. She also reflects on being a scholar/activist in times of culture wars and growing ‘anti-woke’ sentiment.