Rate My Professor John Fielder

Dr. John Fielder is an educator and researcher affiliated with Curtin University's School of Allied Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, where he contributes to the Looking Forward project. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in communication and cultural studies from Murdoch University. Fielder's career at Curtin University spans multiple roles, including positions at the Centre for Aboriginal Studies from 1995 to 2006, The Learning Centre, and the Office of Assessment, Teaching & Learning. He teaches communication and cultural theory and has focused on pedagogical improvements, such as enhancing peer interaction in online discussion forums for spatial sciences and other units.

Fielder's research specializations include communication and cultural studies, Indigenous studies, and literature. Key publications encompass 'Third spaces within tertiary places: indigenous Australian place-space programs' (2006, co-authored with Pat Dudgeon and others), 'Contemporary Aboriginal Perceptions of Community' (co-authored with Pat Dudgeon, John Mallard, and Darlene Oxenham), 'Pearson and Pedagogy: Countering Co-Dependency' (2008), 'Achieving better peer interaction in online discussion forums: A reflective practitioner case study' (2013, with Lou Siragusa), 'Country and Connections: An Overview of the Writing of Kim Scott' (2005), 'Sacred Sites and the City: Urban Aboriginality, Ambivalence, and Modernity' (1995), 'Purity and pollution: Goonininup/The Old Swan Brewery' (1991), 'Postcoloniality and Mudrooroo Narogin's Ideology of Aboriginality' (1991), and 'Postcolonial Ambivalence: Reading Aboriginality'. Recent works include 'A Case Study of the Influence of Aboriginal Elders on Non-Indigenous Speech Pathology Students' (2024, with Tiana Culbong and others) and 'Co-designing a relational ethical decision-making framework for working with Aboriginal peoples' (2024, with Michael Wright and others). He has supervised doctoral theses, including those in health sciences, and his publications have received approximately 300 citations in total.