Faculty Member
Dr. Kilbourne has devoted nearly all of his adult life to helping individuals, teams and communities understand the deeper meanings of play, games, sport, dance, and creativity. His Bachelors degree is in Creative Drama & Movement for Children from California State University Long Beach. His Masters Degree is from the University of California at Los Angeles in Dance Education with an emphasis in Dance & Sport. While at UCLA, he served as Graduate Assistant (Dance/Basketball Conditioning) to then Headcoach Larry Brown. His Ph.D. is from The Ohio State University where he continued his work in exploring the relationships between sport and performance. His dissertation is titled, Building A Bridge Between Athletics and Academics.
In 1982 John became the first full-time Conditioning Coach in the National Basketball Association with the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers. He helped them in the pursuit of their 1983 World Championship.
In addition to his work in basketball, John has extensive experience in figure skating in both the United States and Canada. He and his wife Elizabeth were fortunate to attend the 1994, 1998, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics.
John is a former member of The Margalit Dance Theatre, and The Detroit DanceCollective.
For ten years, John served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Movement Arts at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. In 2004, he accepted a position in the Department of Movement Science at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. At GVSU he teaches, Foundations of the Human Movement Sciences, Introduction to Liberal Education, Creativity, and In Search of the Meaning of Games in Life.
John has won numerous awards including, GVSU’s 2009 and 2011 Sustainability Champion Award, GVSU’s 2010 PEW Excellence in Teaching Award, GVSU’s 2009 Distinguished Professor of the Year, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Citation of Outstanding Performance, The 2004 Bridgewater State College Award for Academic Excellence, The 2000 Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Honor Award, The Ohio State University 1993 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The 1993 National Dance Association Presidential Citation, and The Ohio State University 1993 Success Stories Multicultural Teaching Award.
Dr. Kilbourne is leader in creating and researching the effectiveness of more active teaching and learning environments, i.e., Activity Permissible Classrooms. Dr. Kilbourne’s research has been cited in hundreds of newspapers, journals, and on local and national news, including ABC World News, and National Public Radio.
Dr. Kilbourne is a productive scholar with numerous articles and one book. The title of his book is, Running with Zoe: A Conversation on the Meaning of Play, Games and Sport; Including a Journey to the Canadian Arctic. He is a frequent guest speaker both in North America and abroad. His current research also focuses on the early games of Arctic People. During the fall of 2001, he and his family moved to the Canadian Arctic where they experienced the life-world of Canada’s Inuit. In the winter of 2011, he traveled to Norway to research and practice the games of the Sámi. In the winter of 2018, he returned to the Arctic of Norway, Sweden and Finland to continue his research on the early games of the Sámi and their relationship to sustainability and peace. He and his wife Elizabeth are the proud parents of their greatest productions ever, their children Zoe and Parker.
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About John R. Kilbourne
Dr. Kilbourne has devoted nearly all of his adult life to helping individuals, teams and communities understand the deeper meanings of play, games, sport, dance, and creativity. His Bachelors degree is in Creative Drama & Movement for Children from California State University Long Beach. His Masters Degree is from the University of California at Los Angeles in Dance Education with an emphasis in Dance & Sport. While at UCLA, he served as Graduate Assistant (Dance/Basketball Conditioning) to then Headcoach Larry Brown. His Ph.D. is from The Ohio State University where he continued his work in exploring the relationships between sport and performance. His dissertation is titled, Building A Bridge Between Athletics and Academics.
In 1982 John became the first full-time Conditioning Coach in the National Basketball Association with the Philadelphia Seventy Sixers. He helped them in the pursuit of their 1983 World Championship.
In addition to his work in basketball, John has extensive experience in figure skating in both the United States and Canada. He and his wife Elizabeth were fortunate to attend the 1994, 1998, 2006, and 2010 Winter Olympics.
John is a former member of The Margalit Dance Theatre, and The Detroit DanceCollective.
For ten years, John served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Movement Arts at Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. In 2004, he accepted a position in the Department of Movement Science at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. At GVSU he teaches, Foundations of the Human Movement Sciences, Introduction to Liberal Education, Creativity, and In Search of the Meaning of Games in Life.
John has won numerous awards including, GVSU’s 2009 and 2011 Sustainability Champion Award, GVSU’s 2010 PEW Excellence in Teaching Award, GVSU’s 2009 Distinguished Professor of the Year, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Citation of Outstanding Performance, The 2004 Bridgewater State College Award for Academic Excellence, The 2000 Massachusetts Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Honor Award, The Ohio State University 1993 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, The 1993 National Dance Association Presidential Citation, and The Ohio State University 1993 Success Stories Multicultural Teaching Award.
Dr. Kilbourne is leader in creating and researching the effectiveness of more active teaching and learning environments, i.e., Activity Permissible Classrooms. Dr. Kilbourne’s research has been cited in hundreds of newspapers, journals, and on local and national news, including ABC World News, and National Public Radio.
Dr. Kilbourne is a productive scholar with numerous articles and one book. The title of his book is, Running with Zoe: A Conversation on the Meaning of Play, Games and Sport; Including a Journey to the Canadian Arctic. He is a frequent guest speaker both in North America and abroad. His current research also focuses on the early games of Arctic People. During the fall of 2001, he and his family moved to the Canadian Arctic where they experienced the life-world of Canada’s Inuit. In the winter of 2011, he traveled to Norway to research and practice the games of the Sámi. In the winter of 2018, he returned to the Arctic of Norway, Sweden and Finland to continue his research on the early games of the Sámi and their relationship to sustainability and peace. He and his wife Elizabeth are the proud parents of their greatest productions ever, their children Zoe and Parker.
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