Kimiko Itō (pedagogue)

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
Personal details
Born1945 (age 80–81)
OccupationPedagogue
AwardsOrder of the Sacred Treasure (2021)
Academic background
Alma materHiroshima University
Academic work
DisciplineLanguage pedagogy
Sub-disciplineJapanese language
Institutions

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.