Kimiko Itō (pedagogue)

Kimiko Itō (位藤 紀美子, Itō Kimiko, born 1945) is a Japanese pedagogue who specialises in language pedagogy for the Japanese language. Born in Ehime Prefecture, she spent over thirty-five years as part of the staff at Kyoto University of Education. After spending months as a professor at Biwako-Gakuin University [ja], she returned to the Kyoto University of Education to become president after Mitsuyo Terada [ja] resigned as a result of a sexual violence scandal involving the university's students, serving from 2009 until 2016.

Kimiko Itō
位藤 紀美子
President of the Kyoto University of Education
In office
1 October 2009 – 31 March 2016
Preceded byMitsuyo Terada [ja]
Personal details
Born1945
Ehime Prefecture, Japan
OccupationPedagogue
AwardsOrder of the Sacred Treasure (2021)
Academic background
Alma materHiroshima University
Academic work
DisciplineLanguage pedagogy
Sub-disciplineJapanese language
Institutions

Biography

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Kimiko Itō was born in 1945 in Ehime Prefecture.[1] She was educated at the Hiroshima University, graduating from the Faculty of Education in 1968.[1] In 1970, she received her Master of Education at the Hiroshima University Graduate School of Education and returned to the Faculty of Education as an assistant.[1] After she left the Graduate School's doctoral programme in 1972, she moved to the Kyoto University of Education, where she began teaching as a lecturer in 1973.[1] She was promoted to assistant professor in 1976 and to professor in 1990, remaining at the university until March 2009.[1] She later worked at Biwako-Gakuin University [ja], where she became a professor at their Faculty of Education and Welfare in April 2009.[1]

In September 2009, she was elected as the new president of the Kyoto University of Education, replacing sports scientist Mitsuyo Terada [ja], who resigned as a result of a sexual violence scandal involving the university's students, and she took office starting on 1 October 2009.[2] She stepped down from this position on 31 March 2016.[3]

As an academic, she specialises in language pedagogy for the Japanese language.[1]

She was awarded the Order of the Sacred Treasure in 2021.[4]

As of 2021, she lived in Ōtsu, Shiga.[4]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g "これからの京都教育大学に期待すること(後編)". Kyoto University of Education. 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  2. ^ "京教大学長に位藤氏「二度と不祥事招かない」". Kyoto Shimbun. 9 September 2009. Archived from the original on 12 September 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  3. ^ "位藤紀美子学長の記念講演会が開催されました。". Kyoto University of Education. 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2024.
  4. ^ a b "令和3年秋の叙勲 県内から36人が受章". Shiga Hōchi Shimbun. 4 November 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2024.