Thomas W Nielsen, Phd

Dear all who attended my keynote at the NOEC, and for others interested, a complimentary paper can be accessed at: http://curriculumofgiving.wikispaces.com/Publications

Also, the slides from that presentation, together with the audio, will be available through the NOEC website sometime in the future, I am told.

All the best,
Thomas

Article in Canberra Times, December 6, 2010
Thomas Nielsen, University of Canberra

So Brazil crashed out of the 2010 World Cup after having been favourites yet again. Five times winner, everyone’s favourite ‘second’ team, Brazil is always the team against which every other team is measured. After all, they play ‘joga bonito’— the beautiful game.

Canberra Times June 14, 2010 article
Thomas W. Nielsen, University of Canberra

Canberra Times October 4, 2010 article
Thomas William Nielsen, University of Canberra

Occasionally, students shed a tear in my office. That is the nature of teaching and looking after students – even at university level. In the last couple of years, however, there have been a few more tears than usual. It has not been because I have been a mean lecturer (I think?), but because of a fairly new dimension added to the classroom management unit I teach all pre-service teachers at the University of Canberra.

Children need to give on a daily basis. Many kids have everything they can point at - except daily opportunities to be something for others.

Yet there is increasing research evidence supporting the view that being something for others promotes higher levels of wellbeing and resilience in students.

My work is dedicated to establishing philosophical and evidence-based foundations for creating more individual and communal wellbeing in educational settings.