Yōji Takikawa

Yōji Takikawa is a Japanese pedagogist and professor at the Center for Educational Research and Development, Tokai University, specializing in science education curricula. In 1986, he organized a circle for practice in science education, which has ultimately developed into a nonprofit organization named Garireo-Kōbō with Takikawa being the chairperson of trustees.

Biography

Yōji Takikawa was born in Okayama prefecture and studied at. He graduated from the Department of Physics at the School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University in 1972. After completing his master's degree at Tokyo Gakugei University in 1975, he became a teacher at International Christian University High School in 1979. Takikawa completed his doctor's degree with his doctoral thesis titled "The Process of Understanding Natural Science as Seen in Class Activities: A Case Study in Mechanics".
Takikawa visited the United Kingdom from September 1999 to August 2000. He studied at a teacher's trainings course in Cambridge University. From 2006, he was a visiting professor at College of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo, before gaining his current position in 2010.