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Hiroko Oka

Born: July 20th, 1917 in Saga City, Saga prefecture
Died: April 29th, 1998


Education

  • Completed the graduate school of Tokyo Bunrika University (1949; Tokyo Literature and Science University)
  • B.A. (1942) Department of Education, Tokyo Bunrika University, Psychology
  • Graduated department of Japanese literature, Tokyo Women’s higher normal school

Landmarks

  • 1949 Instructor at Tokyo toritsu koto hobo gakuin (Tokyo Metropolitan higher kindergarten teacher Lyceum)
  • 1950 Associate Professor at Wayo Women’s University
  • 1951 Associate Professor at Department of Literature, Seishin Women’s University
  • 1955 Professor at Department of Literature, Seishin Women’s University
  • 1986 Retired from Seishin Women’s University

Contributions

  • Hiroko Oka was a star professor at Seishin Women’s University. She investigated infant development and child education. Her interests were the development of expression, the development of babyhood state, mother-child interaction, child development, and the development and deformation of relationships.
  • She also contributed to establishing the Department of Psychology at Seishin Women’s University.

Honors

  • 1986 Honorary Professor at Seishin Women’s University
  • 1986 President of Japan Family Life Association
  • 1990 Director of University seminar house foundation
  • 1990 Honorary member at Japan Educational Psychology Association

Keywords

  • Child development
  • Developmental psychology
  • Depiction development

References

  • Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.
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