Ebook
This custom ebook includes chapters from
Introduction to Kinesiology, Fifth Edition. It is specifically designed for students taking the course Foundations of Health, Sport, and Physical Education (EDPE 190) at Gonzaga University.
Audience
Custom ebook for students taking the course Foundations of Health,
Sport, and Physical Education (EDPE 190) at Gonzaga University.
Author
Shirl J. Hoffman, EdD, is a professor emeritus of kinesiology at
the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he served as
department head for 10 years. He has served at many levels of education:
as an elementary physical education teacher, as a college-level coach,
and as a professor in both research university and liberal arts college
settings.
Hoffman has published extensively on a variety of topics, including
sport philosophy and ethics, religion in sport, qualitative analysis and
diagnosis of movement, and motor learning and performance. Hoffman is
the author of Good Game: Christianity and the Culture of Sport
(2010) and was the project coordinator for Careers in Sport, Fitness,
and Exercise (2011), published by the American Kinesiology
Association. He also has been a frequent commentator on issues in
kinesiology and higher education.
Hoffman is a former editor of Quest and was the charter executive
director of the American Kinesiology Association (AKA). He is a fellow
emeritus of the National Academy of Kinesiology (NAK).
Hoffman and his wife, Claude, reside in Greensboro, North Carolina, and
Boone, North Carolina.
Duane V. Knudson, PhD, is a professor of biomechanics in the
department of health and human performance at Texas State University. He
earned his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin and has held tenured
positions at three universities.
Knudson’s research areas are the biomechanics of tennis, stretching,
qualitative movement diagnosis, and learning biomechanical concepts. He
has authored more than 130 peer-reviewed articles and 14 chapters.
Knudson is the author of Biomechanical Principles of Tennis Technique
(2006), Fundamentals of Biomechanics, Second Edition (2007), and Qualitative
Diagnosis of Human Movement, Third Edition (2013). He has received
numerous regional, state, national, and international awards for his
scholarship and has been elected a fellow of three scholarly societies.
He has served as a department chair, as an associate dean, as president
of the American Kinesiology Association, as vice president of
publications for the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports,
and in numerous other professional leadership roles.
