Kimiko Itō (pedagogue)
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 | |
| Alma mater | Hiroshima University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Language pedagogy |
| Sub-discipline | Japanese language |
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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.