Dr Michael Nagel
BEd Regina, MEd Qld.UT, PhD Qld.UT
Position: Senior Lecturer in Education and Head of Education Discipline
Office: C2.07
Tel: +61 7 5459 4402
Fax: +61 7 5456 5004
Email: mnagel@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Human Development and Early Learning
- Learning about Learning
Research areas
- neurological development in children
- early and adolescent development
- cognition and learning
- gender and learning
- middle years of schooling
- teacher education and professional development
Profile
Dr Michael Nagel has been an educator since the mid-1980s and has worked in various educational contexts on three continents. He has taught middle school and high school in Canada, was the director of a foreign language institute in Japan, has worked as a teacher and behaviour specialist with Education Queensland and has been involved in Australian tertiary education since his arrival from Canada in 1995. His PhD research encompassed an international project that looked at how Australian and Canadian middle-year students conceptualise various school experiences.
In 2003, Dr Nagel spent time in the United States researching neurological development in children, specifically in areas related to a sexually dimorphic brain. In 2006 his book entitled 'Boys-Stir-Us: Working With the Hidden Nature of Boys' was released in Australia which was followed in 2008 by 'It's A Girl Thing: Schooling and the Developing Female Brain'.
Dr Nagel is currently the Head of Education Programs at the University of the Sunshine Coast. Aside from his teaching and research activity at the university he has also conducted workshops and seminars for teachers and parents at over 200 schools in Australia and abroad. Dr Nagel has also won a number of awards for linking theory with the every day realities of raising and working with children and he is a feature writer for the Child series of magazines which offers parenting advice to more than one million Australian readers. Dr Nagel is keenly interested in most facets of education and child development but his primary motivation is helping to ensure that schools and 'schooling' are positive and enriching experiences for students and teachers alike.
Publications
Many of Dr Michael Nagel's publications are available from the Coast Research Database.
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