Associate Professor, Teikyo University Center for General Education.
Guest Professor, Waseda University Comprehensive Research Organization.
Ph.D. (Interdisciplinary Information Studies)
Majored in Education and Lifelong Learning. With an interest in people who continue to study and the society in which such people live, I am continually researching and practicing lifelong study, centring on workshops, cafe events, and project-type studies. Since 2013, I have been proactively supporting “learning after the age of 40,” in particular, by means of domestic and international studies and action research, etc. through the establishment of the “Learningful Ageing” project.
Awarded the 2008 Japan Society for Educational Technology Research Award.
Awarded the 2021 Tokugawa Munemasa Prize Budding Award.
Main publications include “Learningful Ageing: Potentialities of learning in a highly aged society” (co-author, Minerva Shobo) and “Workshop Design” (co-author, Keio University Press).
Profile and Educational history