Thomas William Nielsen

Dr Thomas William Nielsen is an Associate Professor in Teacher Education at the University of Canberra, 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 www.curriculumofgiving.com

Research fields of expertise
• Wellbeing education
• Positive education
• Values education
• Behaviour management
• Imaginative education
• Steiner (Waldorf) education