Shirl hoffman biography sample
Shirl James Hoffman addresses our society's obsession with sports..
Here, in this thoughtful, narrative-driven exploration, Hoffman retells numerous fascinating stories from the world of ancient and contemporary sports and draws.
Shirl J. Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Kinesiology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After taking his BS from The King's College (NY)he began his career as a physical education and college basketball coach.
Following completion of graduate work at Teachers College, Columbia University (MA, Ed.D.) he served as professor at University of Nebraska at Omaha and 13 years at the University of Pittsburgh. He was appointed head of the department of exercise and sport science (now kinesiology) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1985.
He his scholarship covers an extraordinarily broad range of topics including motor learning and performance, sociology of sports, and sport philosophy, appearing in such journals as: Journal of Motor Behavior, Perceptual and Motor Skills, Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sports, Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, Quest, The Journal of Sport Philosophy, and The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Chro