Dr Thomas Nielsen
Position
Associate Professor - Teacher Education
Contact details
E: thomas.nielsen@canberra.edu.au
T:
L: Building 6D18.7
Biography
Dr Thomas William Nielsen is an Associate Professor in Teacher Education at the University of 溏心vlog免费B站, Australia. His work explores the underlying principles of effective teaching and learning across educational paradigms, guided by a broader interest in how people learn and develop as whole human beings. His expertise includes pedagogy, classroom and behaviour management, qualitative research, and collaborative, school-based professional learning and action research. He developed the Curriculum of Giving, a pedagogical approach that makes giving an explicit focus of teaching and learning, exploring its significance for meaningful learning, social concern and wellbeing. See
Research fields of expertise
- Wellbeing education
- Positive education
- Values education
- Behaviour management
- Imaginative education
- Steiner (Waldorf) education