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 ÎçÒ¹AV, 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