This custom e-book combines chapters from Lifespan Motor Development, Sixth Edition, and Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity, Second Edition. It is specifically designed for students taking the course, Growth, Motor Development and Ageing, at Charles Sturt University.
Life Span Motor Development, Sixth Edition
Chapter 1. Fundamental Concepts
Chapter 2. Theoretical Perspectives in Motor Development
Chapter 4. Physical Growth, Maturation, and Aging
Chapter 5. Development and Aging of Body Systems
Chapter 6. Early Motor Development
Chapter 7. Development of Human Locomotion
Chapter 8. Development of Ballistic Skills
Chapter 9. Development of Manipulative Skills
Chapter 10. Sensory-Perceptual Development
Chapter 11. Perception and Action in Development
Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity, Second Edition
Chapter 1. Introductory Concepts
Chapter 2. Prenatal Growth and Functional Development
Chapter 4. Development of Physique
Chapter 9. Heart, Blood, and Lungs
Chapter 11. Strength and Motor Performance
Chapter 12. Aerobic Performance
Chapter 14. Thermoregulation During Growth
Chapter 16. Timing and Sequence of Changes During Adolescence
Chapter 24. Obesity in Childhood and Adolescence
Chapter 28. The Young Athlete
Custom e-book for students taking the course, Growth, Motor Development
and Ageing, at Charles Sturt University.
Life Span Motor Development, Sixth Edition
Kathleen M. Haywood, PhD, is a professor and associate dean for
academic programs at the University of Missouri at St. Louis, where she
has researched life span motor development and taught courses in motor
behavior and development, sport psychology, and biomechanics. She earned
her PhD in motor behavior from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign in 1976.
Haywood is a fellow of the National Academy of Kinesiology and the
Research Consortium of the Society for Health and Physical Education
(SHAPE). She is also a recipient of SHAPE’s Mabel Lee Award. Haywood has
served as president of the North American Society for the Psychology of
Sport and Physical Activity and as chairperson of the Motor Development
Academy of SHAPE.
Haywood is also the coauthor of four editions of Archery: Steps to
Success and of Teaching Archery: Steps to Success, published
by Human Kinetics. She resides in Saint Charles, Missouri, and in her
free time enjoys fitness training, tennis, and dog training.
Nancy Getchell, PhD, is an associate professor at the University
of Delaware in Newark. For nearly 30 years, Getchell has investigated
developmental motor control and coordination in children with and
without disabilities. She teaches courses in motor development, motor
control and learning, research methods, and women in sport.
Getchell is a professional member of the North American Society for the
Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity, the International Society of
Motor Control, and the International Society for Behavioral Nutrition
and Physical Activity. She is a research fellow for the Research
Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD). From 2005 to 2009, Getchell served as
editor for the Growth and Motor Development section of Research
Quarterly for Exercise and Sport. Getchell has also served as the
chairperson of the AAHPERD Motor Development and Learning Academy.
Getchell obtained her PhD from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in
1996 in kinesiology with a specialization in motor development. In 2001,
Getchell was the recipient of the Lolas E. Halverson Young Investigators
Award in motor development.
Getchell resides in Wilmington, Delaware, where she enjoys hiking,
geocaching, and bicycling.
Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity, Second Edition
Robert M. Malina, PhD, FACSM, earned a doctoral degree in
physical education from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a
doctoral degree in anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania at
Philadelphia. He earned honorary degrees from the Catholic University of
Leuven in Belgium and the Academy of Physical Education, Jagiellonian
University in Krakow, Poland. He was a professor of kinesiology and
anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin from 1967 to 1995 and
then moved to a similar position in kinesiology and anthropology at
Michigan State University. Dr. Malina retired from Michigan State
University in the summer of 2002. He currently is a research professor
at Tarleton State University at Stephenville, Texas, and a research
associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at
Michigan State University.
Professor Malina served as editor in chief of the American Journal of
Human Biology (1990-2002), editor of the Yearbook of Physical
Anthropology (1980-1986), and section editor for growth and
development for Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews (1981-1999)
and Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport (1981-1993). He
also serves on the editorial boards of 13 journals in the sport sciences
and biological anthropology.
His primary area of interest is the biological growth and maturation of
children and adolescents with a focus on performance, youth sports and
young athletes, and the potential influences of physical activity and
training for sport. He has also worked extensively with the
anthropometric correlates of physique and body composition in female
athletes at the university level. Related areas of interest are the role
of physical activity in the well being of children, adolescents, and
young adults and the influence of chronic undernutrition on the growth,
performance, and physical activity of Latin American youth.
Claude Bouchard, PhD, FACSM, is the executive director of the
Pennington Biomedical Research Center and the George A. Bray chair in
nutrition. He holds a BPed from Laval University, an MSc in exercise
physiology from the University of Oregon at Eugene, and a PhD in
population genetics from the University of Texas at Austin. His research
deals with the genetics of adaptation to exercise and to nutritional
interventions as well as the genetics of obesity and its comorbidities.
He has authored or coauthored several books and more than 800 scientific
papers. He received the Honor Award from the Canadian Association of
Sport Sciences in 1988 and 2002, a Citation Award from the American
College of Sports Medicine in 1992, the Benjamin Delessert Award in
nutrition in France in 1993, the Willendorf Award from the International
Association for the Study of Obesity in 1994, the Sandoz Award from the
Canadian Atherosclerosis Society in 1996, the Albert Creff Award in
Nutrition from the National Academy of Medicine of France in 1997, the
TOPS award from the North American Association for the Study of Obesity
in 1998, the W. Henry Sebrell Award from the Weight Watchers Foundation
in 1999, and of an honorary doctoral degree in science from the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in 1998. He has been a foreign member of
the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium since 1996 and was the Leon Mow
visiting professor at the International Diabetes Institute in Melbourne
in 1998. In 2001, he became a member of the Order of Canada as well as
professor emeritus of the faculty of medicine at Laval University. Dr.
Bouchard is a former president of the North American Association for the
Study of Obesity and the president of the International Association for
the Study of Obesity (2002-2006). Prior to coming to Pennington, he held
the Donald B. Brown research chair on obesity at Laval University.
Oded Bar-Or, MD, FACSM, is professor of pediatrics and founder
and director of the Children’s Exercise and Nutrition Centre at McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. His 35-year research and
clinical career has focused on the effects of physical activity and
inactivity on the health, well-being, and performance of healthy
children and those with disease. His work has been widely published.
During his career, he served as president of the Canadian Association of
Sports Sciences, vice president of the American College of Sports
Medicine, and president of the International Council for Physical
Fitness Research. In 2000, the University of Blaise Pascal in France
awarded him an honorary doctorate degree. He also received the Honor
Award of the North American Society for Pediatric Medicine in 1998 and
the Citation Award of the ACSM in 1997.