Crystal Fountain Branta博士任教于密歇根州立大学教育学院青少年运动研究所（Institute for the Study of Youth Sports）人体运动系。Branta博士于乔治亚学院（Georgia College）获得健康与身体教育学学士学位，并在那时参加了该校的女子体操队。毕业后，她在亚特兰大地区教授8、9年级的健康与中小学身体教育课程，并执教于当地的体操和篮球队。随后，Branta博士继续她的学术深造，并于密歇根州立大学获得硕士和博士学位。在研究生阶段的主要研究方向是儿童和青少年的身体成长和动作发展。作为密歇根州立大学的一名教员，她参与了一项历时34年的动作表现的纵向研究（longitudinal Motor Performance Study）。在这项研究中，她和她的同事们探究了生长和生理成熟因素对于青少年学习、执行动作技能的影响。另外，她们还分析了一个包括1200名男女被试的巨大数据库。她是测量儿童和青少年身体成长、从婴儿期到青春期动作技能发展、协调性纵向方案（coordinating longitudinal program）方面的专家。目前，她担任青年运动研究学院特约研究员（contributing faculty member）。 Branta博士还指导系内其他几项科研计划。她在密歇根州立大学协调（coordinated）针对2至6岁儿童的早期动作发展计划近14年；随后，她又把这一计划在人类生态学学院的儿童发展实验室进行了近8年。她指导动作治疗诊所（Remedial Motor Clinic）近13年，在这个诊所内，初级发展迟缓的儿童（slower-developing elementary children）由本科生对他们进行一对一的指导，帮助他们学会有利于体能和运动的动作技能。近年来，Branta博士与密歇根州的学校教师、义工诊所的青少年运动教练和领队（youth sports coaches and directors in volunteer clinics）以及项目领导进行合作，共同开展青少年身体活动与营养计划。她是参与食物和健身课程（Jump Into Foods and Fitness Curriculum）的创建者之一，此课程由密歇根州立大学的拓展儿童、青少年和家庭计划于2003年公布。密歇根和美国的其他几个州已开始设立此课程。 另外，Branta博士还针对JIFF课程在各种学术刊物中发表了自己的科研成果。她在《锻炼与运动研究季刊》（Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport ）、《和平与冲突：和平心理学期刊》（Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology）中发表过文章；在《动作发展研究进展》（Advances in Motor Development Research,）编著卷（edited volumes）中发表过手稿；在《儿童运动的参与形式》（Patterns of Participation in Children’s Sports）、《儿童运动科学进展》（Advances in Pediatric Sports Sciences）、《锻炼与运动评论》（Exercise and Sport Science Reviews）等书中参与了某些章节的编写。她还与Eugene Brown博士合作编著了《竞技运动对儿童和青少年的影响》（Effects of Competitive Sports on Children and Youth）一书。 Branta博士一直任职于专业组织。她曾担任过美国健康、身体教育、休闲与舞蹈联盟的动作发展学会的主席，并在学会提名委员会和时事政策委员会任职。她曾两次担任北美运动与身体活动心理学会的动作发展部门的规划委员会成员，并合作主持该分会的会议。她为6种不同的专业期刊中的论文，提出专业的意见。 作为一位知名的教育家，Branta博士因其在教学与工作中做出的贡献获得了多项荣誉。她于1982年被乔治亚大学校友联合会载入杰出青年校友名录（the Outstanding Young Alumni Citation from the Georgia College Alumni Association）；她于1996年被密歇根州立大学密歇根中部地区英才校友联合会授予大学教学奖；于2006年被英才教育学院授予教学奖。 Branta博士现在与丈夫Jack住在密歇根州的Okemos,他们有三个成年儿子。 ----- Crystal Fountain Branta Department of Kinesiology Institute for the Study of Youth Sports College of Education MichiganStateUniversity East Lansing, MI48824 Crystal F. Branta received her undergraduate degree in health and physical education from GeorgiaCollege, where she competed on the women’s gymnastics team. After graduation, she taught 8th and 9th grade health and physical education classes in the Atlanta area and coached gymnastics and basketball. Crystal continued her academic pursuits with graduate work at Michigan State University (MSU), completing both her MA and PhD degrees. Her area of emphasis in her graduate work was in physical growth and motor development of children and adolescents. As a faculty member at MSU, she has been a co-investigator on the 34-year longitudinal Motor Performance Study. In that study, she and her colleagues have researched the influence of growth and biological maturation on the ability of youth to learn and execute motor skills. In addition, they continue to analyze the vast data base which includes over 1200 male and female participants. She is an expert in the measurement of physical growth of children and adolescents, in the development of motor skills from infancy through adolescence, and in coordinating longitudinal programs. She currently serves as a contributing faculty member in the Institute for the Study of Youth Sports. Dr. Branta also has directed several other programs in her department. She coordinated the Early Childhood Motor Development Program at MSU for 14 years for children ages 2 to 6 years and then extended that program into the Child Development Laboratories in the College of Human Ecology for another 8 years. She directed the Remedial Motor Clinic for 13 years in which slower-developing elementary children received one-on-one instruction from undergraduate students to acquire motoric skills for fitness and sports. More recently, Dr. Branta has worked with teachers in schools, youth sports coaches and directors in volunteer clinics, and program directors throughout the State of Michigan on physical activity and nutrition programs for youth. She was a co-author for the Jump Into Foods and Fitness Curriculum (JIFF) published by the MSU Extension Children, Youth, & Family Programs in 2003. That curriculum has been adopted throughout Michigan and several other states in the United States. In addition to the JIFF curriculum, Branta has published her research in several venues. She has articles in journals such as the ResearchQuarterly for Exercise and Sport and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, manuscripts inedited volumes of Advances in Motor Development Research, and chapters in books such as Patterns of Participation in Children’s Sports, Advances in Pediatric Sports Sciences, and Exercise and Sport Science Reviews. In addition, she co-edited, with Dr. Eugene Brown, a book entitled Effects of Competitive Sports on Children and Youth. Crystal Branta has served her professional organizations throughout her career. She has been chair of the MotorDevelopmentAcademy of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation & Dance and also served on the academy nominating committee and newsletter policy committee. Crystal twice was a program committee member for the motor development section of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity and co-directed the NASPSPA conference. She also has contributed her expertise by reviewing manuscripts submitted to six different professional journals. A renowned educator, Dr. Branta has received several awards for her teaching and contributions to the profession. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Alumni Citation from the Georgia College Alumni Association (1982); the MSU Mid-Michigan Alumni Association Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award (1996); and the College of Education Excellence in Teaching Award (2006). Crystal and her husband, Jack, reside in Okemos, Michigan, and are parents to three young adult sons. |
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