Mary E. Rudisill博士是奥本大学人体运动系系主任，动作发展方向的杰出教授。她于1985年获得弗罗里达州立大学运动科学教育的博士学位。她是美国健康、身体教育、休闲与舞蹈联盟的动作发展学会前主席。Rudisill博士于2000年受命负责一全国委员会，筹备“积极的起点”：0到5岁儿童身体活动指导的文件。这份2002年完成的文件包括对幼儿身体活动的指导和建议。目前，Rudisill博士正与世界各地的幼儿动作专家进行合作，在过去的三年里，她研究了中国文化以及中国的幼儿教育。近期，她作为四位教材编写者的一员，参与编写了《幼儿教材全球通》这一包含5本书的教材，编制的目的是鼓励中国的幼儿在全球社会中成为独立的学习者。《幼儿教材全球通》教材正被北京奥林匹克学校采用。Rudisill博士也是奥本大学动作行为中心的一名研究员，并具体她负责一项为婴幼儿身体玩耍建模的课题。她研究的主要目标是考察何种因素促使儿童学习动作并参与身体活动。Rudisill博士在美国奥委会担任团队项目心理学家的工作经历为她提供了宝贵的经验，因为其动机理论和应用可应用于各年龄段人群。在过去的20年里，在这一方向，她在实验室条件下的研究与在自然环境中的干预，都处于领先地位。这些研究给基于成就目标理论的实地检验动机干预带来发展。Rudisill博士已经出版了6本书，发表了50多篇相关研究的文章。她的幼儿动作发展的文章已得到国际认可。最近，Rudisill博士和她的同事正在编写适用于早期儿童情景下的幼儿动机在环境中的身体活动课程材料。她的目标就是把幼儿的身体教育和游戏方案转化成强有力的动机体验，从而促使他们一生都参与身体锻炼并获得健康的生活方式。

Dr. Mary E. Rudisill is the Department Head and a Distinguished Professor of Motor Development in the Department of Kinesiology at AuburnUniversity. She earned her Doctorate in Movement Science Education from FloridaStateUniversity in 1985. She is a past chair of the MotorDevelopmentAcademy within the American Alliance of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. In 2000, Dr. Rudisill was appointed to a national committee charged to prepare the Active Start: A Statement of Physical Activity Guidelines for Children Birth to Five Years of age document. This 2002 document contains physical activity guidelines and recommendations for young children. Dr. Rudisill currently collaborates with early childhood motor specialists around the world and has spent the past three years researching Chinese culture and early childhood education in China. Recently, she served as one of four curriculum writers for the Global Bridges Early Childhood Curriculum project. This five-book curriculum is designed to encourage young children from China to become independent learners in a global society. The Global Bridges Early Childhood Curriculum is being implemented in the Beijing Olympic School in Beijing, China. Dr. Rudisill is also a researcher in the MotorBehaviorCenter at AuburnUniversity and is the director of a research program designed to create and investigate model physical play programs for infants and young children. Her primary research objectives have been to learn more about what motivates children to learn to move and engage in physical activity. Dr. Rudisill’s past experiences working with the United States Olympic Committee as the Team Sport Psychologist provided invaluable experiences as it relates to motivation theory and its application to people of all ages. Over the past 20 years, she advanced from studying this topic in laboratory settings to intervening in naturalistic settings. This research has lead to the development of field-tested motor interventions that are based on achievement goal theory. Dr. Rudisill has published 6 books and over 50 papers related to this research topic, and is internationally recognized for her work in early childhood motor development. Presently, Dr. Rudisill and her colleagues are developing motivational climate physical play curricular materials for implementation in early childhood settings. Her goal is to transform physical education and play programs for young children into highly motivating experiences that promote lifelong physical engagement and healthy lifestyles.