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.

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]

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

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