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.