Kimiko Itō (pedagogue)
Japanese academic
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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, she returned to the Kyoto University of Education to become president after Mitsuyo Terada resigned as a result of a sexual violence scandal involving the university's students, serving from 2009 until 2016.
Kimiko Itō | |
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| 位藤 紀美子 | |
| President of the Kyoto University of Education | |
| In office 1 October 2009 – 31 March 2016 | |
| Preceded by | Mitsuyo Terada |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1945 (age 80–81) Ehime Prefecture, Japan |
| Occupation | Pedagogue |
Awards | Order of the Sacred Treasure (2021) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Hiroshima University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Language pedagogy |
Sub-discipline | Japanese language |
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Biography
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, 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, 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]