Max Howell (educator)
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Date of birth | 23 July 1927 | ||||||||||||||||
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Place of birth | Sydney, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 February 2014 | (aged 86)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Brisbane, Australia | ||||||||||||||||
School | Sydney Technical High School | ||||||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Educator, University Professor | ||||||||||||||||
Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||
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Maxwell Leo "Max" Howell
After his career as player he went to North America. Aligned with his sporting exploits, he pursued undergraduate and graduate study in Australia and North America in physical education, education psychology, exercise physiology, and sport history. He earned doctorate degrees from the
At Alberta, Howell began the graduate program in sport history from which a number of scholars in sport history have graduated, he was dean of the College of Professional Studies at San Diego State University, and he was the foundation chair and first professor of human movement studies at the University of Queensland. He was renowned for his capacity to stimulate graduate students in the field of sport history and significantly influenced programs in Canada, America, and Australia.[citation needed]
He published articles and books on a range of topics that included physiotherapy, motor learning, exercise physiology, comparative physical education, sport in antiquity, Canadian sport history, the history of sport in Australia, and more recently he wrote about Australian history and produced some fictional works. He is the author of two autobiographical works: The Shepherd Was Sleeping: A True Story of Love and Tragedy and Tragedy and Laughter on the Road to Oblivion: Around the Final Bend.[citation needed]
He was the President of the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH), President of the Canadian Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation, and President of the Canadian Association of Sport Sciences. NASSH honoured him with the annual Max and Reet Howell Memorial Address. He was married twice, the second, from 1974 until her death, to Reet Howell, PhD (née Reet Ann Nurmberg; 1945–1993), a scholar in comparative sports.[3]
References
- ^ "Former Wallaby Max Howell dies at 86 after a distinguished career in sports history education". couriermail.com.au. 3 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ "Australian Rugby Mourns The Passing of Max Howell AO". rugby.com.au. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
- ^ "Maxwell L. Howell, 1927-2014 | NASSH". Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 24 July 2014.