ABSTRACT
Teachers who use a ‘lecture’ style of teaching, for example, often do not engage their students and hence learning does not necessarily occur for students who are only lectured. However, as lectures are the preferred learning style of a small proportion of students, it doesn’t hurt to include a small amount of lecture-style teaching in the mix. Teachers must accept professional responsibility for the learning of their students. It is this characteristic that makes teaching a profession. There are strong links between culture and how people learn. These links are cultural rather than genetic or biological and so teachers can learn about appropriate pedagogies by learning about the cultures of their students. Tyson Yunkaporta’s work provides valuable insight for teachers into the ways of learning of Aboriginal people in western New South Wales, much of which can be generalised as similar in some ways, to other parts of Australia.
