History
Chronological Summary
| 1949 | May |
Establishment of the Faculty of Education, Tohoku University (Departments of Education, School Education, Special Education, and a 2-year teacher training course)
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| 1953 | April |
Establishment of the Graduate School of Education
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| 1954 | September |
Announcement of the regulation for 10 academic chairs in the Faculty of Education
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| 1964 | April |
Faculty of Education reorganized into two departments and three programs (Departments of Education, Educational Psychology, and the Teacher Training Programs for Elementary, Junior High, and the School For the Visually Impaired); the three programs were initially offered at a branch campus
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| 1965 | April |
Separation of the three programs (Teacher Training Programs transferred to Miyagi University of Education)
Establishment of the Chair of Visual Impairment Studies
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| 1968 | April |
Establishment of the Chair of Intellectual Disability Studies
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| 1973 | April |
Establishment of the University-Affiliated Center for Educational Outreach
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| 1992 | April |
Establishment of the Chair of Clinical Psychology
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| 1993 | April |
Establishment of the Chairs of Educational Thought and Sports Science
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| 1998 | April |
Reorganization of the Faculty of Education into one department with five major chairs (Theory of Human Formation, Educational Policy Science, Adult Continuing Education Theory, Teaching and Learning Science, and Clinical Human Development Science)
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| 2000 | April |
Focus on graduate programs
Faculty of Education reorganized into two courses within the Department of Educational Sciences (Educational Systems Theory and Clinical Education Theory)
Graduate School of Education established the Comprehensive Educational Science Major with five core chairs (Theory of Human Formation, Educational Policy Science, Adult Continuing Education Theory, Teaching and Learning Science, Clinical Human Development Science) and one cooperative chair (Theory of Open University Education)
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| 2003 | April |
Establishment of the Clinical Psychology Counseling Room
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| 2007 | April |
Reorganization of the Department of Educational Sciences into two courses (Education and Educational Psychology)
Establishment of the Educational Network Center (until March 31, 2018)
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| 2008 | April |
Graduate School of Education reorganized into the Comprehensive Educational Science Major (with chairs in Theory of Human Formation, Educational Policy Science, Adult Continuing Education Theory, Teaching and Learning Science, and Clinical Human Development Science) and the Educational Design and Evaluation Major (Educational Design and Evaluation)
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| 2011 | September |
Establishment of the Disaster Child Support Office (until March 31, 2021)
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| 2018 | April |
Integration of the Graduate School of Educational Informatics and Graduate Research Division of Educational Informatics into the Graduate School of Education
Graduate School of Education reorganized into the Comprehensive Educational Science Major with three core chairs (Educational Theory, Educational Psychology, and Educational Information Assessment) and two cooperative chairs (Multicultural Education Theory, Educational Information Application Theory)
Establishment of the Center for Advanced Educational Research and Practice
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| 2020 | April |
Establishment of the Psychological Support Center
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| 2023 | October |
Establishment of an International Degree Program under the Global Education for Symbiotic Society course within the Doctoral Program in Comprehensive Educational Science (three-year postdoctoral program)
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Deans of the Graduate School of Education and the Faculty of Education
| No. | Name | Term of Office |
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| 1 | Tsuneo Hosoya |
May 31, 1949 – April 30, 1952
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| (Administrative Handling) | Satomi Takahashi |
May 1, 1952 – December 31, 1952
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| 2 | Kinju Matsumoto |
January 1, 1953 – June 15, 1955
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| 3 | Taro Nakajima |
June 16, 1955 – March 31, 1958
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| 4 | Takeshi Tsukada |
April 1, 1958 – March 31, 1961
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| 5 | Kirayuki Sumeragi |
April 1, 1961 – February 7, 1965
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| 6 | Takeji Hayashi |
February 8, 1965 – February 7, 1967
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| 7 | Masami Harada |
February 8, 1967 – April 14, 1968
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| 8 | Yahiko Mizuno |
April 15, 1968 – March 31, 1972
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| 9 | Shintaro Iwashita |
April 1, 1972 – March 31, 1976
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| 10 | Takeshi Arai |
April 1, 1976 – March 31, 1980
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| 11 | Tetsundo Tsukamoto |
April 1, 1980 – March 31, 1982
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| 12 | Tetsuro Sasaki |
April 1, 1982 – March 31, 1984
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| 13 | Otoyori Tahara |
April 1, 1984 – March 31, 1988
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| 14 | Jun Hosoya |
April 1, 1988 – March 31, 1992
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| 15 | Ichimaro Matsui |
April 1, 1992 – March 31, 1996
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| 16 | Kazuhiko Fuwa |
April 1, 1996 – March 31, 2000
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| 17 | Kuniaki Sugai |
April 1, 2000 – March 31, 2002
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| 18 | Takekatsu Kikuchi |
April 1, 2002 – March 31, 2005
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| 19 | Katsuhiro Arai |
April 1, 2005 – March 31, 2007
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| 20 | Toru Hosokawa |
April 1, 2007 – March 31, 2009
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| 21 | Eiichi Miyakoshi |
April 1, 2009 – March 31, 2012
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| 22 | Kazuo Hongo |
April 1, 2012 – March 31, 2015
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| 23 | Mitsuru Takahashi |
April 1, 2015 – March 31, 2017
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| 24 | Yoshifumi Kudo |
April 1, 2017 – March 31, 2019
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| 25 | Tomohiro Yakuwa |
April 1, 2019 – March 31, 2022
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| 26 | Kazuhito Noguchi |
April 1, 2022 – March 31, 2024
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| 27 | Hideki Kozima |
From April 1, 2024
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Deans of the Graduate School of Educational Informatics
| No. | Name | Term of Office |
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| 1 | Ryuzo Watanabe |
April 1, 2002 – March 31, 2004
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| 2 | Toshiro Hagiwara |
April 1, 2004 – March 31, 2006
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| 3 | Shin Iwasaki |
April 1, 2006 – March 31, 2008
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| 4 | Shinichi Watanabe |
April 1, 2008 – March 31, 2018
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